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I have three very large files .hdf5 (each 1.2TB) in my trash that I can't get rid of. Obviously I have tried simply emptying the trash. I have also tried deleting from Terminal with

 rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

I have also tried directly deleting the files from the .Trash-1000/files folder. All of these options have resulted in my computer freezing. The only thing I can do that works then is pressing. Once I restart, they are back in the Trash. Curiously I tried a 'move to' another folder which appears to move the files, but then my computer crashes and when I restart, they are back in the Trash.

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The only added information I can give is that I put these in the Trash by mistake and tried to restore them which crashed my computer.

Any help would be appreciated - I have been on this problem for 24 hours.

GhostRider
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I would have a look on the SMART status of the disk, to make sure this is not the problem.

If that is fine, you can try and give the process lower IO, in order for it to not freeze the system

sudo ionice -c3 rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

EDIT:

I don't understand why this is downvoted here ? I checked and it is an acceptable answer on serverfault

Robert Riedl
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Try trash-cli toolkit.. You can install it with apt-get.

sudo apt-get install trash-cli

use trash-empty tool to remove trash, like:

sudo trash-empty

best wishes

AsmuAsheer
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