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I visited a lot of forums but found no answer. I have 5 files in my trash bin and I can't delete them, at first after I clicked on the empty trash button it would freeze, now when I do that it just says "preparing" and displays an error while trying to delete files.

I tried deleting it via BleachBit but nothing, tried with terminal command sudo rm -Rf ~/.Trash/* it doesn't work either. I found out that one of my folders is immutable, I tried to disable that via terminal it didn't work, I can't even restore it, it freezes again.

I've been using Ubuntu 13.10 for few weeks and I am new to Linux. How can I solve this?

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Open your terminal and type the following command to clear the trash

 sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*
Raja G
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