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I have a Gwenview error: The wastebin is full. Empty it or remove items manually.

I don't know where Gwenview keeps its wastebin. It doesn't seem to be the same one as the main wastebin as that is empty.

Could someone point me in the right direction to delete the files in the Gwenview Wastebin?

The copy I'm running is installed as a snap

Thank you for any help

tridral
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  • OS & Release details are usually helpful (they tell us your defaults & system stack details), but you're right it's probably snap released (and related to the confinement that snaps run within) – guiverc Jul 14 '23 at 07:45
  • Thank you guiverc - I'd completely forgotten about including the OS Release details

    Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy

     – tridral Jul 14 '23 at 13:04
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    and gwenview 23.04.2

    in /snap/bin/gwenview

    But no sign of any Trash

     – tridral Jul 14 '23 at 13:17
  • I've now found it via a search

    .... /snap/gwenview/94/.local/share/Trash

    (I wish this was visible via the application)

     – tridral Jul 14 '23 at 13:23
  • I don't know the app sorry (not something I use), but if (or when) you find the answer to your question, feel free to write your own answer (which you can accept in time & thus gain rep. points) – guiverc Jul 14 '23 at 13:26
  • Thank you again guiverc. I shall do that. – tridral Jul 14 '23 at 13:29
  • My question was regarding finding the location of the Trash folder for Gwenview when installed via a snap.

    Gwenview produces the error message 'The wastebin is full. Empty it or remove items manually.' but doesn't tell you where to find the Trash.

    I used the command find . -name "Trash" | sort | more

    And got the result /snap/gwenview/94/.local/share/Trash

    The Trash folder contains folders 'Files' and 'Info' The contents of these folders can be deleted.

    The '94' in the path is something that is changeable. It's something to do with snap.

    Hope this helps other people.

     – tridral Jul 14 '23 at 13:35

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My question was regarding finding the location of the Trash folder for Gwenview when installed via a snap.

Gwenview produces the error message The wastebin is full. Empty it or remove items manually. but doesn't tell you where to find the Trash.

I used the command:

find . -name "Trash" | sort | more

And got the result:

/snap/gwenview/94/.local/share/Trash

Edit: ~/snap/gwenview/94/.local/share/Trash is the correct path. (Thanks to mook765)

The Trash folder contains folders Files and Info. The contents of these folders can be deleted.

(The '94' in the path is something that is changeable. It's something to do with snap. So you'll have to search to find your Trash)

Hope this helps other people.

tridral
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  • I think it should be ~/snap/gwenview/94/.local/share/Trash. The folder /snap contains the mountpoints for the installed snaps, everything there is mounted read-only, thus you can't delete anything there. – mook765 Jul 17 '23 at 21:13
  • Yes, you're right. Thank you for the correction. – tridral Jul 18 '23 at 07:15