deletefilestrash
I was just wondering what would happen if I went and moved the Trash located here:
/home/neo/.local/share/Trash
To my Trash? I mean if I go to that folder and right-click on the contents and tell it to move it to the Trash.
GNOMEish file managers need a place to put trashed files.
/home/username/.local/share/TrashSo it tries to put them in the /.Trash-$UID folder of the file's partition. Without rw access to that folder, no trash.
Run this bash in the partition root as the user who needs a trash.
sudo mkdir .Trash-$UID && sudo chown $USER:$USER .Trash-$UID
You can delete this folder and disable write access to the / to disable that feature.
This is the place of your trash folder. Files that you delete with Del in your file manager are stored there. You can bypass the trash by using Shift+Del.
~/.local/share/Trash/*
eg:
$ ls -l ~/.local/share/Trash/
total 436
drwx------ 6 aboettger aboettger 20480 Apr 29 13:56 expunged
drwx------ 2 aboettger aboettger 184320 Mai 6 10:05 files
drwx------ 2 aboettger aboettger 233472 Mai 6 10:05 info
$ ls -l ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
total 564
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aboettger aboettger 35860 Okt 28 2014 libmlt++3_0.9.2+git20141027-1_amd64.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aboettger aboettger 415338 Okt 28 2014 libmlt6_0.9.2+git20141027-1_amd64.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 aboettger aboettger 118896 Jun 20 2014 stackapplet_1.5.2-0~201406200416~ubuntu14.10.1_all.deb
Best Answer
A Trash folder is first created when a user deletes a file. Within that folder are three directories:
files, where the deleted files are stored until the trash is emptied;info, which stores information on where the files once were and when they were deleted;expunged, to which files are briefly moved when the trash is emptied (but may contain some owned by other users from directories you deleted).So whenever you delete a trash indeed you are calling recursively to create a new dir for the newly trashed files.
Also note that Trash exists for every user including the root account plus sometimes you could face some dirs names such as
Trash-0,Trash-1. Read my answers here and here