Trash/Wastebasket

[flatstan]

I have a strange problem with SUSE 10.1 Gnome. As user, my wastebasket shows 2 folders, which when I try to delete ( empty wastebasket) says- you don't have permission to modify parent folder. I log out & login as root, the wastebasket is now called Trash & is empty, I click on - empty trash - anyway. going back to user the 2 folders are still there. How do I get rid of them? thanks.

[devils casper]

Login regular user and execute this in Terminal

ls -l ~/Desktop

Post output here.

[flatstan]

I tried this result -
john@linux-whye:~> ls -l ~/desktop
/bin/ls: /home/john/desktop: No such file or directory
john@linux-whye:~>
Tried using l character, also 1 number, in all combinations, same result.
thanks.

[devils casper]

Its Capital D in Desktop.

ls -l ~/Desktop

[flatstan]

Thanks, my mistake, it gave this -

john@linux-whye:~> ls -l ~/Desktop
total 237
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 2600 2007-09-26 18:15 104073-should-i-buy-64bit-dual-core-amd-athlon_files
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 89463 2007-09-26 18:15 104073-should-i-buy-64bit-dual-core-amd-athlon.html
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 2088 2007-09-26 18:00 78665-installing-suse-10-2-newbies-please-read_files
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 98624 2007-09-26 18:00 78665-installing-suse-10-2-newbies-please-read.html
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 168 2007-09-21 17:31 AVI to DVD
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 240 2007-09-21 17:20 CaHoot
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 152 2007-09-21 17:31 Ccleaner
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 72 2007-08-22 22:32 CopiedTo500
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 504 2007-06-07 10:28 Copied to Slave
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 20 2006-10-13 21:16 Documents -> /home/john/Documents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 20 2006-10-13 21:18 Downloads -> /home/john/Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 2104 2006-09-28 10:30 eek-007e7d57b7.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 1897 2007-05-29 19:46 eek-00b8f41104.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 144 2007-09-19 21:23 EGG
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 173 2006-06-14 16:06 foo-0048bf6cd4.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 11029 2006-06-28 20:50 foo-00ad116c8b.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 16 john users 448 2007-09-17 17:44 GameCopiedtoCD 80-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 2939 2006-05-03 02:46 greasy-005525c9d9.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 2966 2006-10-20 19:31 hammer-004c8a73fc.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 4060 2006-10-25 15:54 hammer-00c47f6c15.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 4 john users 440 2007-09-21 17:19 IceBreaker Game PC Lx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 26 2006-10-20 18:29 Incoming -> /home/john/.aMule/Incoming
drwxr-xr-x 6 john users 336 2007-09-19 21:23 ING
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 2691 2006-09-23 14:08 larry-008187cdf0.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 1232 2007-05-29 19:41 moe-001cf60ee6.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 106 2006-10-22 13:48 Nero DVD-CD -> /home/john/Downloads/Nero/NeroProphet/NeroLINUX-2.0.0.0-6-intel.Repacked.For.All.Linux.distro/usr/bin/nero
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john users 22 2006-11-04 14:54 Temp -> /home/john/.aMule/Temp
drwxr-xr-x 5 john users 320 2007-09-21 17:46 Virtual PC
john@linux-whye:~>

[devils casper]

Its not listing Trash in the output. Login as root and open /home/<userid>/Desktop folder. Try to delete those folders stored in Trash.

[flatstan]

Thanks - devils-caspar - I have sussed the answer to the prob, as root - opened file system - user home - found trash - the unwanted files were there - deleted - OK. I still don't understand the reasons for the prob' or why it's wastebasket in user & trash in root. Thanks for your help, anyway, regards.