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I am a user of Xubuntu and I have a problem with it. When I delete any files outside home they can't be deleted and instead of that, a message appears to me and says "Unable to find or create trash directory". I hope I find a solution for this problem, as I can't get rid of useless files. Thanks.

Jorge Castro
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حسن الشناوي
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No need to have it somewhere else to copy it:

First, confirm that your normal user is ID "1000":

$ id

Then

$ sudo mkdir -p /.Trash-1000/{expunged,files,info}
$ sudo chown -R $USER /.Trash-1000
Greg Bell
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If you have touched your /etc/fstab then you have to fix it. Your lines there must be something like /dev/sdc1 /media/Data ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,locale=en_US.utf8 0 2.

Note about uid=1000

techraf
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Mostafa Shahverdy
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For me this happened after I added the LXQT window manager; I'm unaware if that is related, but I am using a fresh install and that is all I have done so far, so that is why I mentioned it. To fix it, I simply had to change the permissions for the Trash directory:

sudo chown -R $USER ~/.local/share/Trash
omikes
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This happens if you delete the trash directory. If you are the only user in the system, it is a hidden directory named ".Trash-1000" in each partition (HDD or removable device). This must contain three directories: 1. "expunged" 2. "files" 3. "info"

I would suggest copying the directory from another partition and deleting the files in it.

I had the same problem and it was solved this way. Your case may be different.

MakisH
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I have a similar problem after installing LXQT/lubuntu and switching back to Ubuntu. A simple solution is to go to ~/.local/share folder and delete the "Trash" folder.

sudo rm -R ~/.local/share/Trash

Then try to delete a file, it will create the default Trash folder with all the required permissions.

Ravi Misra
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This happens when the file to delete is on a different partition than the trash folder. The trash folder is usually $HOME/.local/share/Trash. The source of the problem is that you can't rename files across partitions.

If this is the root cause, go into the folder which contains the file you want to delete and then:

df -h .

The last column is "Mounted on" which gives you the path on which the partition is mounted. In my case, this is /data

To fix the problem:

cd /data       # <<--- the the value from the df command above
sudo mkdir -p .Trash-$UID/{expunged,files,info}
sudo chown -R $USER .Trash-$UID
sudo chmod -R 0700 .Trash-$UID

This will create a trash can on the partition which is owned by the current user ($USER and $UID).

See also:

Aaron Digulla
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I solved this by unmounting my NTFS drive and again mounting

Deepak Kumar Mahto
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I solved this issue by remounting by NTFS drive with proper permissions using the flag:

mount -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" <drive name> <mount point>

This assumes your used id is 1000 which you can check with the id command.

SurpriseDog
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When automounting using gnome-drives, in the mounting options I wrote:

nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,uid=1001,gid=1001

In a terminal write id, and whatever is the output should be where I have put 1001 - in your case it might be 1001 or 1000

Zanna
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Luis Felipe Carranza
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