file owner 1058???
Richard S. Crawford
rscrawford at mossroot.com
Thu Jan 6 16:43:09 UTC 2005
jim lawrence said:
>> with userid 1058 on one of those other systems?
>>
> Either way, I'd say it's *probably* safe to delete those files, though
> you might want to make sure they're not being used by any other
> process.
>
>
> -- cant delete them from my user account or from Root's account
I don't know what desktop environment you're using, but I assume you're
using GNOME. I don't know how it works for KDE, even though that's the
environment I use these days (I was a GNOME guy for a couple of years).
Log in as yourself.
Open a shell.
$ su
password: xxxxxx
# cd .Trash-jimf (assuming your user name is jimf)
# ls -la
This should list the files in your trash directory that you didn't see
when you logged in as root at the login screen. You should then be able
to do:
# rm *
to delete those files. Though before doing that, I'd do a pwd, just to
make sure you're in the right directory.
As to how those files got into your trash folder in the first place when
they have a userid totally different from your own user account, I can't
explain that.
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