I am not able to delete my folder from Trash

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I am not able to delete a folder from my trash. It shows:

I have followed the following: Why can't I delete a folder in my trash?

But, it did not help. My deleted folder shows up in 'Trash' folder not in ~/.local/share/Trash/. I have Ubuntu 17.04 (development branch) in my machine.

Output of sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* is:

Output of sudo rm -rf /media/wings/B6A411BAA4117E55/.Trash-1000/ is:

Please tell us the output of sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* — pLumo, Jan 05 '17 at 15:57
Please copy any output and paste into your post, no text in image allowed, or is discouraged. — George Udosen, Jan 05 '17 at 16:17
And that command [sudo rm -rf /media/wings/B6A411BAA4117E55/.Trash-1000/] you ran should end in a file name I don't see one — George Udosen, Jan 05 '17 at 16:18
Thanks George. But I just followed what suggested by@RoVo. No idea. — Wings, Jan 05 '17 at 16:23
don't use sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* instead use sudo /home/<username>/.local/share/Trash/* — sanjeevprasad, Jan 05 '17 at 17:31
Thanks @Sanjeev. However, my problem was with read only file system error.... as I mentioned in question that folder is not in ~/.local/share/Trash/. These answers did not work. I have solved it and answered below. — Wings, Jan 05 '17 at 17:49

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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The description in that article "Why can't I delete a folder in my trash?" works only for your local Trash. If the file you want to delete is on an external drive, you need to type

sudo rm -rf /path/to/external-drive-mountpoint/.Trashes/*

replace the path accordingly.

Update

According to the error messages, the problem exists because your external drive is mounted read only. There are many questions around here related to that problem.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Jan 05 '17 at 16:01

pLumo

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I have mount point as: / ; and using $ sudo rm -rf /.trashes/* gives nothing. – Wings Jan 05 '17 at 16:04
I mean the mountpoint of the external drive .... something like/media/username/hdd/. Find out using lsblk – pLumo Jan 05 '17 at 16:05
So a right click won't delete ? – George Udosen Jan 05 '17 at 16:06
@ RoVo, plz check the description for the output of: sudo rm -rf /path/to/external-drive-mountpoint/.Trashes/* – Wings Jan 05 '17 at 16:14
Okay then it's a different problem. Search for that read only file system error here, there are many questions to this problem – pLumo Jan 05 '17 at 16:22
Thanks @RoVo. I searched for 'read only file system error' and found an answer here by Allan. His edit worked for me. – Wings Jan 05 '17 at 16:55

Wings · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-25T06:16:04.447

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I needed to check disk for errors but fsck did not work too. Then I used my Windows to

check for errors in that drive, and
repair.

Did reboot and everything was ok.

edited Jan 25 '17 at 06:16

answered Jan 05 '17 at 17:20

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I am not able to delete my folder from Trash

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