Ubuntu – the “.Trash-1000” folder and how to delete it

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Can someone tell me what the .Trash-1000 folder is and how can I remove/delete it?

It taking up 275 gigs of disk space.

This is the folder of you paperbin.
If you delete something it will not be deleted from disk. It will be moved to this folder instead.

Try to empty the paperbin or delete the folder with the terminal-command as root:

sudo rm -rf /path/to/folder/.Trash-1000

Yeah it is normal if you want to delete it forever, use

shift+ delete

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If the trash has nothing else important in it:

rm -rf /media/Elements/.Trash-1000/

You may want to try as root as well:

sudo rm -rf /media/Elements/.Trash-1000/

Another method would be to use srm - it would wipe over the data and remove it. It also shows if it is a hardlink etc.

If you need to install it:

 sudo apt-get install secure-delete

and then

srm -rf /media/Elements/.Trash-1000/