Empty Trash in Gnome When the Trash Can Refuses to Clear

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*
Empty the trash when the icon stay in the non-empty state source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/phoenixrising-455874/2009/3/3/how-to-empty-trash-in-gnome-when-the-trash-can-refuses-to-clear-1660/

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By: elwillow
2009-03-30 21:34:12
rm gnome trash
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if you like using your trash can, you may also like the trash-cli package sudo aptitude install trash-cli It allows you to deal with the user trash directory from the command line with trash file so you can finally stop saying "OMG! I NEEDED THAT!" because you can then run restore-trash and put it back.
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