Dolphin trash can not working correctly

[urdrwho5]

Somewhere along the line the trash can in dolphin stopped working correctly and I can not empty trash through dolphin. The empty icon / text is grayed out and can't be clicked.

I can add the trash can widget to the desktop and that will empty the trash. If I am working in Dolphin I don' want to go to the desktop to empty the trash.

Any ideas on how to get it back working?

In /home/myname/.local/share/Trash/info/.directory has this -

[Dolphin]
Timestamp=2015,5,14,10,24,7

[Settings]
HiddenFilesShown=true

[Snowhog]

Sounds to me like your Trash directory isn't owned by you any more.

Open a console and type: ls -la | grep .Trash
You should see something like this:

drwx------ 4 paul paul 4096 Sep 1 2013 .Trash-1000

If instead you see:

drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Sep 1 2013 .Trash-1000

Ownership needs to be changed. Type: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .Trash-1000

[urdrwho5]

Did this
j@urdrwho:~$ ls -la | grep .Trash

Got this
j@urdrwho:~$

Should I still use this command? I assume that I replace $user with my name?

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .Trash-1000

Sounds to me like your Trash directory isn't owned by you any more.

Open a console and type: ls -la | grep .Trash
You should see something like this:

drwx------ 4 paul paul 4096 Sep 1 2013 .Trash-1000

If instead you see:

drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Sep 1 2013 .Trash-1000

Ownership needs to be changed. Type: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .Trash-1000

[Snowhog]

Okay, in the console just type: ls -la
Is there a directory that starts with .Trash

[urdrwho5]

No there is not. This is what I have in anything starting with the letter T

drwxr-xr-x  2 john john   4096 Apr 21 07:44 Templates
drwx------  4 john john   4096 Apr 21 13:30 .thumbnails
drwxrwxr-x  4 john john   4096 May  1 08:23 .thunderbird
drwxr-xr-x  2 john john   4096 Apr 21 07:44 Videos

I have a trash but it is located here and it isn't a hidden folder in itself but the .local is a hidden directory -

/home/john/.local/share/Trash/

Okay, in the console just type: ls -la
Is there a directory that starts with .Trash

[vinnywright]

ya I dont have a ~/.trash or .Trash either and my trash is located as yours in /home/vinny/.local/share/Trash/ ,,,,but it works as expected in Dolphin-15.04.0 KDE-Plasma-ver-5.3.0

VINNY

[Snowhog]

No there is not.

I have a trash but it is located here and it isn't a hidden folder in itself but the .local is a hidden directory -

/home/john/.local/share/Trash/

Then from the console type: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .local/share/Trash

[urdrwho5]

the command didn't change anything.

So I entered Dolphin as Sudo

sudo dolphin

Then I went to the trash and Empty Trash was illuminated. So apparently i don't have any rights to the empty trash folder unless I am sudo.

Then from the console type: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .local/share/Trash

[Teunis]

Then there is still the strong possibility the ownership is wrong.

Try the command including -R for recursive searching and it will show up:

[COLOR=#000000]ls -Rla | grep .Trash[/COLOR]

Check against snowhog's original post.

Btw, never open a desktop application with sudo, use kdesudo in stead.

[urdrwho5]

Using the command here is what I get ---

ohn@urdrwho:~$ ls -Rla | grep .Trash
drwxrwxrwx 4 john john 4096 May 14 12:30 Trash
./.local/share/Trash:
./.local/share/Trash/files:
./.local/share/Trash/files/5t40gxg2.default:
./.local/share/Trash/files/5t40gxg2.default/cache2:
./.local/share/Trash/files/5t40gxg2.default/cache2/doomed:
./.local/share/Trash/files/5t40gxg2.default/cache2/entries:
./.local/share/Trash/files/5t40gxg2.default/safebrowsing:
./.local/share/Trash/files/5t40gxg2.default/startupCache:
./.local/share/Trash/info:
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 68954892 Apr 22 14:13 Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john   839018 Mar 31 19:18 Trash.msf
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 131170 Aug 28  2014 Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john  13112 Feb 13 01:42 Trash.msf
john@urdrwho:~$

Then there is still the strong possibility the ownership is wrong.

Try the command including -R for recursive searching and it will show up:

[COLOR=#000000]ls -Rla | grep .Trash[/COLOR]

Check against snowhog's original post.

Btw, never open a desktop application with sudo, use kdesudo in stead.

[Teunis]

That's weird, it reports as a file (-rw-) not as a directory (drw-) and it is missing it's executable bit (dwrx).

You'll need someone with a bit more knowledge than me to get it fixed.

[kubicle]

That's weird, it reports as a file (-rw-) not as a directory (drw-) and it is missing it's executable bit (dwrx).

Nope. The top line of the output is the correct trash folder:
drwxrwxrwx 4 john john 4096 May 14 12:30 Trash

These are something else (possibly related to thunderbird's trash folder):
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 68954892 Apr 22 14:13 Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 839018 Mar 31 19:18 Trash.msf
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 131170 Aug 28 2014 Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 13112 Feb 13 01:42 Trash.msf

The command:
ls -Rla | grep .Trash
Is a tad ambiguous, you'll get more meaningful results with:
ls -Rla ~/.local/share/Trash
(quicker too, since it won't parse through the whole filesystem, just the part we're interested in)

sudo dolphin

Yep, don't do that. Using "plain" sudo with GUI apps is just the sort of thing that will mess up ownerships in your $HOME. Use "kdesudo dolphin" ("sudo -H dolphin" will also do if you prefer)
If you've been using sudo with GUI apps, you should make sure everything in your $HOME is owned by you, you can do that by running:
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME
(otherwise you may run into other issues, which can be hard to track down)

[urdrwho5]

Maybe I should re-install dolphin?

Re-installed and it is working again.

[Teunis]

Hi Kubuntu, thanks for the clarification/correction.