Questions tagged [permanent-delete]
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Deleting contents of ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged .....?
Is there a safe way of deleting contents of ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged ? I see It has lots of files & folders I had deleted -- from the trash as well. They are taking a lot of disc space.
After deleting the files & clearing the trash why are the…
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How to remove/hide $RECYCLE.BIN and System Volume Information folders?
I am running dual boot (Ubuntu 16.10 and Windows 10). When I boot into Ubuntu, I always see the 2 folders $RECYCLE.BIN and System Volume Information. Besides, in one drive I see a file named pagefile.sys. I delete them all, but every time I boot…
Garp
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Is there a GUI program to securely delete files and folders?
I see there's a lot of info in the answers to this question.
I have used such CLI commands added to the context menu of the file manager (mostly Thunar's custom actions, which I favour over Nautilus, while I am in Xfce).
What I want here is a GUI…
user47206
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Allow for 'Move to trash' instead of 'permanently delete' for mounted partition?
In a dual boot system with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 18.04, two partitions (let's call it the Data drive and the Media drive) are NTFS, and are accessible to both Windows and Ubuntu. To be able to access files on those drives via Ubuntu, I had to click…
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How to get rid of templates folder
I have a simple problem: Whenever I delete the templates folder in my home directory (/home/[username]/ in case that info is of use) it seems to come back. It contains nothing and I have no use for it. Is there a way to make it go away permanently?
It's Willem
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Deleted files in use
I have checked that deleted files are still in use by the command
sudo find /proc/*/fd -ls | grep '(deleted)'
And I have been able to check for deleted files that are still in use.
Why does this occur? Is there any way to delete them permanently?.
user641576
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Strange file that I can't delete/move/rename
The name of this file is: Soldier Project. blend@
I can't delete it, move it, or even rename the thing. I was using Blend to make a rig for a soldier, hence the name, when I rage quited out of frustration. I closed the program and noticed it was…
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Force all deletes to be secure
I have setup an Ubuntu Server for my university project. Aside from full disk encryption I also intend to use Dafturn Ofris (a Linux deepfreeze) to make file recovery difficult or for any forensics carried out.
Is there a way I could change system…
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Unabale to delete .Trash-0 folder
I tried:
# rm -r .Trash-0
# rm -rf .Trash-0
But of no use. This file doesn't get deleted. It says "read only file system cannot be deleted".
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Make it so files can't be recovered
I have a laptop with 1 TB hdd which I am selling. My laptop has contained many sensitive data over the years and I wanted to remove any chances of ever recovering that data. I have planned on using the command sfill of package secure-delete.
Note:…
akxer
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Rebuild a DigitalOcean droplet without using "rebuild" of the DigitalOcean API
I use DigitalOcean and I want to use only one droplet, so I'd always work only with one ip (per LTS distro release). The benefit is not having the replace IP address in various software like Putty, WinSCP, PHPmyadmin, DigitalOcean DNS management…
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How can I 'nuke Ubuntu from orbit'?
In short, I need to nuke it from orbit (Which seems to be the preferred method)
But how? Is there a package I can use, or do I just rm -rf / like a noob?
I'll point out now that rm -rf / does very Little damage do a chunk of Linux, so probably is…
Dan Brown
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How to delete bridge permently
I use sudo brctl delbr br0 but its back after reboot. I also tryd sudo brctl delif br0. But it always back after rebooting.
cat /etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
cat…
petep
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remove permanently eclipse from ubuntu system
Please can someone helps me ? I want to delete eclipse from my ubuntu system.
I used the command sudo apt-get autoremove --purge eclipse to do that but the message i received is :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree...…
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Context Menu Delete Option
Context menu delete option not found in Ubuntu 18. Do not like the extra steps of "Trash Can", want to flush immediately instead of having to take the stinky garbage out later. Have used that option since the first of the gnome/nautilus desktop…
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