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  1. Bug #422012
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 422012

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Martin von Wittich (martin.von.wittich) wrote : Re: Protected files hidden by Trash

As far as I understand (unfortunately, I can't find any documentation on this) files that are deleted from the trash are first moved to "expunged" (because moving files is fast), and then are slowly deleted from "expunged" (slowly because deleting a lot of files takes time and doing it too fast could slow down the whole computer).

This means that having files in "expunged" is not necessarily a problem, as long as these files get deleted over time. If there are files in "expunged" that do not vanish over time, the output from the following command could probably help the maintainers in figuring this bug out:

LANG=C ls -l ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged