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I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 and my trash folder won't accept any files larger than a text document. Yes, the trash is empty. I've checked all the related threads here, as well as played with the size settings for the Trash folder in Dolphin, and I've spent a couple of hours on Google trying to find alternative solutions. All I've come up with so far is that this seems to be a somewhat Kubuntu-specific problem, and it's a real pain to resolve. Any ideas or should I just upgrade to v15.10 and hope for the best?

Tornado118
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It is possible that you put something into trash as root!

To access the Trash as root:

  1. Open the terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T.

  2. Then type in the following command:

gksudo nautilus /home/your_username/.local/share/Trash

You may need to install gksudo with:

sudo apt-get install gksu

be sure to replace the "your_username" with your actually username!

Then delete everything in there (or just items you don't need)!

Trevor Clarke
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  • Really? When I trash files as root, they go into /.Trash-0 – SuperSluether Dec 30 '15 at 00:08
  • Well that works for me – Trevor Clarke Dec 30 '15 at 00:10
  • wait maybe i typed it wrong lemme check – Trevor Clarke Dec 30 '15 at 00:11
  • @SuperSluether look here http://askubuntu.com/a/635114/373012 the -0 is only when root users delete non root files – Trevor Clarke Dec 30 '15 at 00:14
  • Ok, that makes sense. – SuperSluether Dec 30 '15 at 00:15
  • @SuperSluether I thought I may have gotten it wrong.. glad its correct – Trevor Clarke Dec 30 '15 at 00:15
  • I tried that command and it told me: 'Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated. please move it to /home/mike/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf manually' – Tornado118 Dec 30 '15 at 00:16
  • when you tried which command – Trevor Clarke Dec 30 '15 at 00:17
  • @Tornado118 try this : just run "gksu nautilus" then navigate to the trash and delete the unneeded files – Trevor Clarke Dec 30 '15 at 00:19
  • @Trevor Clarke It gave me the "Fontconfig..." warning when i tried the "gksudo nautilus /home/your_username/.local/share/Trash" command, and it told me the same thing when I attempted just "gksu nautilus." The file which dolphin is giving me a hard time about is on an external thumb drive which is a few years old, but I've used it before and never had any problems. And it's only 400 or so mgb, so I know the size isn't really an issue. – Tornado118 Dec 30 '15 at 21:12
  • Strange.. @fabby could you help with this? – Trevor Clarke Dec 31 '15 at 02:15
  • The issue is still unresolved, however recently I came across the same problem with a different thumb drive that I was attempting to delete files from. I was able to delete the small files and empty folders, but nothing larger than a couple mgbs. So I'm guessing that it's strictly an issue with external hdds. – Tornado118 Mar 27 '16 at 19:21