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1. daniel says

   July 2, 2016 at 5:19 am

   This does not removed the files in “expunged” folder …

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2. twet says

   November 26, 2014 at 12:22 pm

   Hi,

   I followed the steps but I only have a blinking cursor at the end. What should I do?

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   • sharad chhetri says

     November 26, 2014 at 3:22 pm

     Hello twet,

     Can you provide the output of following commands.

     
(1) ls -1 ~/.local/share/Trash/files|wc -l
(2) cat /etc/issue
(3) echo $SHELL


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3. walt says

   December 27, 2013 at 10:57 pm

   What would be the command to empty ALL trash files, including the ones that are in other partitions, and other drives, and USB stick etc.? Can this be done with one single command, since the trash icon shows full whenever there is trash in partitions as well as the local trash area.

   Thank you in advance.

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   • sharad chhetri says

     December 28, 2013 at 4:48 am

     Hello Walt,

     Yes it is possible but in this case you have to make script for it.
     Reason:
     (1)By-default the trash directory exist to User’s Home directory. In a single installed Operating System you may have many users hence rather than going to each user’s home directory. We can create a script. For eg. Our all user’s home directory path is in /home then you can use this loop command.

     First check,in which user’s home dir Trash exist. This command not only help to show existence of Trash but we can also see is our command okay to run.

     login as superuser,

     sudo su -
     ls -1d /home/* |while read abc;do ls -la "$abc/.local/share/Trash/files/";done
     

     To remove

     ls -1d /home/* |while read abc;do rm -fr "$abc/.local/share/Trash/files/";done
     

     (2) Now second scenario is with different partition, I am assuming multiple Ubuntu booting system. In this case the running operating system must have these partition in some mounted dir. Which you can see by running command df -Th

     You have to just change the script or one liner command and give absolute path of mounted partition.

     for eg. you mounted other filesystem and now mounted dir. are like this

     /partition2 /dev/sda2
     /partition3 /dev/sda3

     for i in partiton2 partition3;do find "$/i" -name Trash >> trash_path;done
     

     This will list in which partition the Trash exist to which users of that particular Operating system

     for i in `cat trash_path`;do ls -la  "$i/files";done
     

     Note: I just write dirty bash script one liner. Before removing anything, first check. Modify the script as per your Operating system.

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