[kde-linux] Problems with user account Trash

[Dale]

joseph lockhart wrote:
>>>> I have a reoccurring problem with "Trash".  I
>>>>         
>> right
>>     
>>>> click on the DeskTop 
>>>> icons and select "Empty Trash Can" and the icon
>>>> doesn't change.  So, I 
>>>> try it again and I get a strange error message.
>>>>
>>>> I have found the problem, there are files in:
>>>> $HOME/.local/share/Trash 
>>>> which are not owned by the user account that
>>>>         
>> $HOME
>>     
>>>> belongs to.
>>>>
>>>> If I open a Konsole and:
>>>>
>>>> chown -R <user>:<user> $HOME/.local/share/Trash*
>>>>
>>>> and then try to empty the trash again, it works.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> is it possible that you sent something to the
>>>       
>> trash
>>     
>>> while running root/kdesu? 
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> If he is deleting as root, it goes to the root Trash
>> can.  Correct? 
>> Mine does.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
>>
>>     
> fair statement, though if he is deleting as user then
> what other explanation do you have as to how he could
> delete something but then have to chown it to himself
> to get it out of the trashcan?
>
> and i don't know where the trash goes, i always set
> mine to /dev/null where it belongs :P
>
> jwlockhart
>
>
>   

I'm bad to use rf -frv yda/yda.

No explanation as to changing owners tho.  Wrong can maybe?  Sounds like
a kdesu thing.  You know, the difference between su and su - thing.

Dale

:-)  :-)