Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) OS: Linux After deleting file from the trash manually (shift-del) and using "empty- trash" from the context menu I could no longer delete files Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: take an empty trash, delete some files, change the size in the metadata file (e.g. decrease first digit) (I did NOT do that initially !) select trash in dolphin shift-del all the files in the trash Actual Results: the size of the deleted file will be subtracted, and be VERY big the trash is recognized as empty and the context menu does not allow to empty it i.e. size in metadata and displayed information do NOT match I suppose in my original case some subtractions must have been buggy, because I could finally "empty trash"After a while I could no longer delete files: message: "trash is full" the file .local/trash/metadata contained "Size=18446744073674717913" but the trash was empty (in dolphin, krusader) setting size = 0 solved the problem Expected Results: "empty trash" should always be callable (i.e.should not only check files) "empty trash" should always set the size to zero, (no subtraction)
KDE 4.6.2, Ubuntu 11.04 (x64) I have the same problem. I was not able to delete any file with the message "The trash has reached its maximum size! Cleanup the trash manually." My ~/.local/share/Trash/metadata contains: [Cached] Size=18446744067049513298 When I delete content of ~/.local/share/Trash/ everything become ok.
KDE 4.7.0, Arch Linux x86_64 Had the same problem after upgrading to 4.7. The trash was empty but I still couldn't delete anything. Solved it by resetting the Cached size in metadata.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 245482 ***