Ubuntu – how to delete locked folders/files

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How to delete locked folders/files? When I try to delete them an error occurs: "Error removing file: Permission denied" I am root. See the image below to know what kind of folders/files.

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thanks

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Launch your file explorer as root using:

gksudo nautilus

This will open your file explorer, and grant it root, so it should be able to view/delete the directory/file.

If you are like me, and don't care about the warnings in this question you can use this instead:

sudo nautilus

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Open terminal - Type this command and hit enter key

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First of all, don't give a glob to find (no files*), just give it the parent directory (/path/to/). It will deal with recursing into it and finding all files. Next, rm will never delete directories, so you don't need to worry about that either. Still, the simplest way is:

find /path/to/ -type f -mtime +5 -delete

Note the -type f which tells find to only look at files and the -delete which, well, deletes them. This is more efficient than calling a separate rm for each result.

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