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Bug 321478 - Unable to empty trash which contain read-only files/directories
Unable to empty trash which contain read-only files/directories
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108307
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Trash
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-15 00:19 UTC by Max Gilead
Modified: 2006-03-16 11:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Max Gilead 2005-11-15 00:19:06 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Debian

Unable to empty trash which contain read-only files/directories. User needs to
enter trash and manually edit permissions of all files in there. It's especially
troublesome because Preferences->Permissions tab doesn't recurse into
subdirectories (try deleting a read-only directory tree, eg. files copied from
CD). My personal solution is to open terminal and 'chmod -R a+rwX ~/.Trash/'
which is annoying but works. User who knows little about UNIX shell would be
stuck with the task of entering each and every subdirectory in trash and setting
permissions of each directory separately.
Comment 1 Dean Sas 2006-03-16 11:39:09 UTC 
I think that this particular bug has already been reported as 108307, but please correct me if I'm wrong

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108307 ***