[SOLVED] Purge Non-Existent File from Trash

[undoIT]

It seems that there is a ghost living in my trash. Every time I empty the trash can I get the following message:

The file or folder /home/user/.local/share/Trash/files/file.zip does not exist.

It seems that the trash is still registering a file or trying to delete a file that doesn't exist anymore. Is there a way to purge this?

[Qqmike]

Re: Purge Non-Existent File from Trash

Open a file manager as root
kdesudo konqueror

Navigate to
/home/your_user_name/.local/share/Trash
open
info
delete it
(you can delete the whole file or its contents or even delete all of the Info folder -- it will all be regenerated)
You might have a look at the files folder, too -- delete anything there you wish.

I'm not sure you have to be root to do this -- probably not since you own that Trash.

[undoIT]

Re: Purge Non-Existent File from Trash

Thanks. That works. Don't need to be root.

[Telengard]

Re: [SOLVED] Purge Non-Existent File from Trash

This just happened to me on my Jaunty computer. Attempting to empty the trash yields an error message similar to file or folder does not exist. After reading this thread I was able to resolve the problem with the command below.

$ rm -v ~/.local/share/Trash/info/*

I have also been having problems with frequent trash full (or similar error message.) I will be searching for the solution to that one next.

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