Cannot change permission and delete some files from Trash

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

My father had a strange problem. He couldn't delete few files from his Trash.

First we figured out that he didn't have 'write' rights to them, even if he saved them from a mail. My first suggestion was to change permissions, but he couldn't (using Nautilus). Today I had a chance to sit in front of dad's computer, I found that suggestion 44037 worked fine (of course I need to make chmod -R +w ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*).

[link to suggestion]
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/44037

[Homersp (maa-tillman)]

Clearly the file's owner was root and a normal user can't delete files that belong to the root account. A sudo should suffice in most cases.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

Thanks Sebasian, but could you add the link to 'the proper' bug please?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's similar to bug #7560 for example

[Bachsau (bachsau)]

If something is moved to MY trash, nautilus should change the permissions and restore, if the file is restored.

If that's impossible, Nautilus shouldn't accept moving trees to the trash, that have unwritable directories in it.