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[Emre Kaan Küçükarpacı <422012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This happened to me not on my main drive but on a USB thumb drive I use
for backup, formatted with FAT32. The backup program kept telling me the
drive was full, so I suspected if the files were not actually deleted,
so I searched for a bit and found 5GB of files in
"/media/DriveLabel/.Trash-1000/expunged".

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Title:
  Protected files hidden by Trash

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nautilus

  When moving files to the Trash which are belong to another user and
  you don't have access to, nautilus moves the files into a folder
  ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged. The problem is that there is no warning
  that this is happening and the location of the files is far from
  obvious.

  I only discovered the folder by using disk analyser and finding that
  there was a massive folder in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged. It
  transpired after deleting the offending files that there had been some
  70Gb worth of files!!!

  Would it not make far more sense from a function point of view to move
  the files into the Trash as per normal but just fail to empty them? At
  least you would be able to see them and know that you needed to do
  something!

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