How do I delete temporary files in Linpus Lite?

How do I delete temporary files in Linpus Lite?
Please help!

 

Hi Jim,

Are you referring to what seems to be back up of viewed or used files in the thumbnails folder?

You will see two sub folders here one called fail or failed and the other called normal, I delete the ones in (normal) folder as they grow to about 4GB on a weekly basis, just to keep things tidy the fail folder never grows to more that 120 Kb.

Also remember you can fully remove deleted files by the following open file manager in the Files section of your desktop and from the window menu select Go >> Trash. Empty Trash then appears on the File menu.

 

I've been trying to clear my trash for a while and every time in the File Manager > Go > Trash, then the file manager just closes, and nada... I'm totally out of disk space - help!

 

I have a similar problem but as yet I have 2GB left out of my 6GB.
When I delete items from a device the files disappear but the free space is not released.
How can I release this disk space. I've tried the suggested FileManager/Go/Trash

Any other suggestions -
Is there a command line entry that I can use within Terminal ?

 

The thing that I am holding out hope for is that last time I totally had not a MB to spare, it did pop-up something toallow me to empty trash. Not the ideal solution I know.
Anyone know why file manager should crash when I try >go>trash?

 

I'm using xfce as my desktop manager I wonder if the change to this has effected the Empty Trash function.

 

Did anybody try using thunar? In terminal

Code:

sudo thunar

Maybe it will work as sudo or root?
Hope it helps.

 

Just tried

Code:

sudo thunar

then Go > Trash this is what output in my terminal

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo thunar
method return sender=:1.6 -> dest=:1.24075 reply_serial=2
   boolean true

(thunar:12437): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gnome-fs-home' for stock: Icon 'gnome-fs-home' not present in theme

(thunar:12437): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gnome-fs-trash-full' for stock: Icon 'gnome-fs-trash-full' not present in theme

(thunar:12437): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gnome-fs-home' for stock: Icon 'gnome-fs-home' not present in theme

(thunar:12437): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gnome-fs-trash-full' for stock: Icon 'gnome-fs-trash-full' not present in theme
Segmentation fault

I don't understand!!

 

I tried that too but with no success.

I then downloaded emelfm2 (two pane file manager) and used this instead.
Select the preference Show hidden files.

If you then go to /home/user/.local/share/Trash/files/
Select all the files and the use the Delete key.

All files deleted.

 

Just done that as well, but disappointingly has only free-ed up 600MB, thought it would be WAY more than that... also had I realised that was the path to Trash, I could have got there without emelfm2. Anyway, thanks for your help!!

Is there any sort of 'treesize' for linux I can use to see where I am storing so much junk?

 

http://rpmseek.com/rpm/treesize-0.5-1.g ... 0240:0:0:0

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... h.rpm.html

See above here. Is this what you need ?

 

perfect, thank you, have got the treesize one now

 

Alt+F2 and type:

Code:

baobab

and hit Enter, and you can see the disk usage analyzer which shows disk usage of the whole filesystem or a specific folder with a tree view and a pie chart display (you don't need to install anything since it's included on Linpus.

 

ooh, ta for that!!

 

Or just hold shift when you delete a file to bypass the trash bin.

 

so much to learn!!

Now i have a different problem. I emptied the "files" bit of Trash, then went to empty the "info", then the infos all got put in files, and new infos were created, and now there are more and more and more files every time I try to delete - will Shift + Delete work for that?

 

Cool works well for me.

 

Yep, now have an empty trash agian - thanks everyone...

My final gripe is I can't seem to make a shortcut to it anywhere - any clues!?