[SOLVED] Wastebin full when trying to delete

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[SOLVED] Wastebin full when trying to delete

Postby RoyD » Mar 13th, '12, 07:14

Hi When I try to delete very large directory 90gb the waste bin says its full. The directory (and contents are not removed), I do not want to go down to individual directories and slowly delete the data. How do I set up the wastebin to allow to remove these large directories? Thanks All
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Re: Wastebin full when trying to delete

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 13th, '12, 10:43

Under which desktop environment?
The wastebin has an upper size limit, normally 10% of your /home partition. If it can't fit in the files you want to remove,
then you can't remove them, but you can still delete them. Under KDE, press Shift+Delete for that, that removes files/directories
directly without putting them in the wastebin, but they're really gone then.
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Re: Wastebin full when trying to delete

Postby RoyD » Mar 13th, '12, 20:37

Thank you that deleted them under KDE
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