[ale] How do I "empty" the .local/share/Trash?

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Tue May 20 08:33:29 EDT 2008


Jim Lynch wrote:
> This home directory has been carried about for a while now and has 
> probably tainted  info from FC4, Centos 4, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1 and 
> variouse Ubuntu distros, plus Gnome, KDE and a few other window managers 
> that I'm forgetting, so I suspect it's old.  KDE doesn't seem to have a 
> generic remove trash that I can find except a Trash can in the Desktop 
> and that doesn't seem to be anything special.
> 
> So I'm thinking I can just delete .local and all will be well, but I 
> thought I'd ask before doing it.

Rename it, if it causes no problems, remove it.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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