sudo nautilus trash/delete function puts trash where?

Using nautilus as root, when you delete a file or directory they go to root's Trash (/root/.local/share/Trash) the same as when deleting a file from your USER accout it goes to the current user-trash (/home/USER/.local/share/Trash)

Thank you for the reply. I do not have a .local file at root and when I click on the Trash icon in a root nautilus I recieve the following message:

The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported

However afer some hunting around I found the trash folder (Trash-0) in Home. I guess the directory structure has changed in Jaunty.

Regardless since I found it I will mark this as solved. Thanks.

Sorry 1 more question. Now that I found them how do I delete them???

If I "delete" them they reappear in the trash folder with an apended ".2". I fi move to trash...of course they just reappear in the same folder.

Run these two commands seperatly in a terminal:

sudo rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/**
sudo rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/**

> When I sudo nautilus

To avoid issues, please never run it like this, instead use:
gksudo nautilus

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical%20sudo
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/gosnautilus-8.html.en

To view files in trash you may add the related applet to the panel.
Right click on panel -> add to panel -> scroll to gnome trash can
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/panels-addobject.html.en

## A file is 'moved' to trash, to 'delete' it has to be removed from trash.

Options to delete a file right away see Nautilus preferences
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/gosnautilus-56.html.en

or use
shift+del

Thank you for the replies.

Sam. Thank you for the information and advice. I will make it a point to gksudo from now on.

wojox. Those commands didn't work for me because as I indicated for some odd reason my trash is no.local file in my root. For some odd reason the root trash is appearing in my Home folder.

Just as a side note how do I "cd" to a folder that is controlled by root. When I use the cd command in the terminal it returns a "permission denied" and if I "sudo cd folder name" it returns command cd not known. I can ls the folder no problem. Sorry if this is a noob question.

Regardless, the shift+ctrl option used in gksudo nautilus deleted the files in question in the root trash. Thank you.

e.g.:
cd /root/.local/share/
sudo ls -a Trash
sudo ls -a Trash/files

If you do:
gksudo nautilus

you'll have also access to the root trash.

Trash of user_xxx is in:
/home/user_xxx/.local/share/Trash

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/basic-commands/C/
http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php

I also have ran in to this, please fix it, this is very confusing and timely, i had 22gbs of data hiding and i did not find it very funny trying to find it,