Roger Benham: >>> As I cannot empty the trash in either Debian or Fedora >>> my main computer is rapidly jamming up. I need to be >>> able to empty both. Jacques B: > Sounds like it may be an issue of permissions. Does sound like that. Perhaps someone who uses the root user when they shouldn't be? > Have them go to the command line and list the files in the .trash > folder to see who owns them. Actually have them do the same for > the actual folder itself. I thought it was ".Trash", it is on my Fedora. No idea about Debian, though. If it is a "root" user related issue, they may need to go through doing this as root. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
