Trash not big enough?

[Qqmike]

Here goes ... The Trash.
Example of the problem:
I have a 6 GB folder on a flash drive.
Why can't I delete it (by pressing Delete or Move to Trash)?
I get a message in RED, like: file too big for the trash.
On my Trash settings, I set the size limit to 36 GB (20%).
My Home folder should have 170 GB free.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Because Dolphin will probably try to move the 6GB to the .Trash-1000 (or whatever your UID is) on the flash drive - not the .local/share/Trash in your /home .
Every storage device has its own settings for Trash in Dolphin.

Just another solution could be:
--> Dolphin's hamburger menu --> Configure --> Confiigure Dolphin… --> Context Menu --> enable Delete
to be able to directly delete it from Dolphin's context menu (right click - attention: no way to undo this).

Or use Konsole (rm -r - also no way to undo this here).


PS: Oh, and maybe you will have to restart Dolphin to get the additional entry in the context menu…

[Qqmike]

Yeah.
Looking at the Trash settings (rt-click on the Trash icon in system tray), there are two places for trash to go: /home, and /media/mike/[flash drive], each has its own size limit to be set. In this case, the latter was set to just 10% or 2.86 GB.
But I don't want to get into having to set & change the latter all the time.
So, I enabled Delete from context menu, as you suggested. It does pop up with a warning, which is good.
Thanks.