What is ./.local/share/Trash (Unix)

ubuntu xfce
Erlaunis picture Erlaunis · Oct 26, 2015 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

I'm using a virtual machine to run a Java web app. The OS is XFCE (Ubuntu) and I found the files that I want with the command find -name "something". These files are in ./.local/share/Trash/... So, I would like to know what is this repository? (Because the "trash" is freaking me out!)

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Reacher Gilt picture Reacher Gilt · Oct 26, 2015

You probably don't want to store things in that trash folder. It's where deleted files go when a sudo user has deleted them as root.

See, for example, https://askubuntu.com/questions/246888/why-does-local-share-trash-still-use-lots-of-space-even-after-emptying-the-tr

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