Trash can screwup

[Dazed_75]

Look in your home directory for the hidden directory (folder) named ".Trash"
(no quotes and be sure to use the leading period.

On 5/9/07, Harold <hmichels01 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I have a separate partition that I am using to migrate my files over to
> Linux from that other operating system.
>
> I browsed to the mount point /mnt/hda5 using a symbolic link that I
> created on my Desktop folder. After copying the files to their
> destination I dragged them into the trash can. They are no longer
> visible in /mnt/hda5. The next step was to empty the trash. This brought
> up an error message for each of the files saying that the files cannot
> be deleted because I do not have permissions to modify its parent
> folder.
>
> A check of properties indicated that root is the owner and while root
> can access and delete the files I can't. When I go into Terminal and log
> on as root I can't find Trash. I suppose it is some kind of link and
> probably hidden as well, but have not been able to locate it yet.
>
> Where is Trash?
>
> Harold
>
>
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