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Solved - I can not erase anything from any ntfs unit

Started by coco, June 14, 2018, 01:16:26 PM

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coco

Hi, sorry for my english.

I'm using sparky gnome and I was trying to make the trash (recycle bin) can work from any unit, either ext4 or ntfs. Something I've touched and now I can not erase anything from any ntfs drive, ext4 drives fine, I even have a file in the trash can not delete it.

I use two users, one of them is the root user, both of them with different passwords.

I would like two things; can delete files from any ntfs unit and that the trash can work in any ntfs unit too.

Thanks

paxmark1

post output of "ls -al"  of an affected directory from a terminal.    Use #   button under the "Subject Message" field.  - i.e. xml mark up

example

~$ ls -al ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
total 48792
drwx------ 3 paxmark paxmark   188416 Jun  5 22:38 .
drwx------ 5 paxmark paxmark     4096 Jul 21  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 paxmark paxmark     4096 May  6  2017 BUPWIN
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark   368560 Jun  2 23:35 Burmese.Days-20180520.epub
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark   367727 May 12 20:37 burmesedays.epub
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark  1289752 Jan 22  2017 DWA-130_REVC_DRIVERS_0.06_LINUX.ZIP
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark 36971873 Mar 19 17:15 KunstlerCast_301.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark   269384 Jun  2 23:34 Pastoral-Shute-20180532.epub
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark  5169023 May 31 18:42 tales-of-the-new-cold-war-1-of-2-has-the-us-isolated-russia-from-its-neighbors-stephen-f-cohen-nyu-p.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark  5315937 May 19 22:38 tales-of-the-new-cold-war-a-public-debate-2-of-2-of-us-vs-russia-in-2018-stephen-f-cohen-nyu-princet.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 paxmark paxmark     3856 Jun  5 21:25 totten.epub


Use Ctl-Shift-V to copy from terminal.  The normal Ctl-C to paste into browser. 

If ownership (paxmark owns in the above case) is incorrect remedy with "chown"  for how to use - see "man chown"
You might have to use "sudo chown   Blah:Blah    Bleh:Bleh" 

Search forum for "More info easier via inxi"    If requested -  no inxi, no help for you by  me.

coco

Thanks @paxmark1 for your help.

Datos1 is an ntfs unit.

~$ ls -al /mnt/Datos1/.Trash-1000/files
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 1 arturo arturo     0 jun 13 13:45  .
drwxrwxr-x 1 arturo arturo     0 abr 10 02:58  ..
-rwxrwxr-- 1 arturo arturo 15761 jun 13 13:35 'Protection.docx'



Datos is an ntfs unit.

ls -al /mnt/Datos
total 4189
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    8192 jun 12 22:05  .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root      4096 may 11 23:50  ..
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo  176128 jun 13 13:19  Android-KDE
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 ago 23  2017  anterkde
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 dic 11  2017  Bios
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 abr 10 03:03  Carpetas
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo   16384 ago 23  2017  ContaSol
-rwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo 1276889 may 10 12:14 'Corporate order.pdf'
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 ago 23  2017  Deco
-rwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo     282 may 22  2014  desktop.ini
-rwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo  732441 may 10 12:14  IMG_0001_backup.pdf
-rwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo  802279 may 10 11:11  IMG_0001.jpg
-rwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo  603390 may 10 12:08  IMG_0002.jpg
-rwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo  547413 may 10 12:10  IMG_0002.pdf
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 ago 23  2017 'Linux carpetas'
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 nov  6  2017  Música
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 ago 23  2017 'PGOU La Vila'
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo       0 oct 22  2017 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 ago 23  2017 'System Volume Information'
drwxr-x--- 1 arturo arturo    4096 ago 23  2017  Wii


In Data and Data1 I can not delete anything.

paxmark1

Your ownership looks good - hopefully others have some other ideas.  I do not have a Gnome DE and do not have any ntfs directories. 

Sparky4 or Sparky5?

Can you delete from the command line as arturo ?  If you feel comfortable doing it can you remove the trash files as root? 

If you have some usb sticks you might want to check out /media.Arturo/LabelOfUsb/.Trash-1000/files   and see if you can delete fat32 files if you have any trash there. 

Quick search on my end, old posts here and there.  Only one interesting was
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=136865

/local/share/Trash vs .Trash  vs .Trash-1000 vs .trash-1000     (1000 is

Search forum for "More info easier via inxi"    If requested -  no inxi, no help for you by  me.

coco

#4
Thanks.

Sparky5

Is incredible, I created an ext4 partition in a space that was free on the disk and I can not write on it either.

Neither as root nor as arturo can I erase anything in the ntfs partitions ... and now neither in the ext4 that created new.

I do not have ntfs partitions for using windows, I do not use it, I only use those ntfs partitions with linux. This is a nightmare, all this for wanting the Trash to work in all the units of my system.

I started with a live usb of ubuntu mate and it was impossible to delete the file from the trash, neither as user nor as root ....

coco

Problem solved.

Everything has been windows problem, I left the computer to a friend because I had to do something with windows, at the end I did not turn off but suspended the computer and that was what prevented the file from the trash and write in the ntfs units, I discovered it because I have installed another linux and did the same, besides that with ubutu mate in live usb mode I could not delete the file from the trash.

Thanks

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