How do I empty the trash (or restore items from trash can) in Ubuntu 9.10?

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I have been deleting items for the past few months and I guess the trash can must be eating up a lot of space by now. Yet, even though its easy to 'move to the deleted items folder', I have not as yet seen a menu item or any instructions that shows how to either:

  1. empty the trash can
  2. restore previously deleted items

Searching on google did not return any useful results either - surely, someone must now how to do this?

morpheous

Posted 2010-02-20T00:07:05.617

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This might be a better question for superuser.com. This will help a bit for recovery of deleted files: http://superuser.com/questions/98183/recovering-a-accidently-deleted-file-in-ubuntu

– Patrick – 2010-02-20T02:26:50.873

Answers

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There should be an icon in the bottom right I think for the Trash, which you can view and from there empty.

Entering: trash:/// into nautilus' address bar will also get you there.

user26996

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