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I'm having trouble opening my Trash folder in Ubuntu and unable to open and view my deleted files as per normal.

It shows up as:

This location could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of “trash:///”: Operation not supported

Does anyone knows how to resolve this? I know i can empty the contents in /.local/share/Trash, but the Trash directory is also missing as well. I tried to create a new Trash directory but the problem described above still persists.

Greatly appreciate any comments from the community!

wjandrea
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rainfrost
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You need to create four separate directories (although I'm not sure this approach will actually work for you):

mkdir ~/.local/share/Trash
mkdir ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged
mkdir ~/.local/share/Trash/files
mkdir ~/.local/share/Trash/info

Let me know your progress on this and I'll update the answer as needed.

WinEunuuchs2Unix
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If you are creating it in /.local, that may be part of the problem. You should be creating ~/.local/share/Trash

That folder should contain subdirectories called expunged, files, and info

Those folders should have permissions of 0700

I cannot replicate your error message, but removing and recreating those files seems to leave a working trash in 17.04

poorplanning
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