How do I avoid my ~/.kde/tmp-sda2-enc/.kio_thumbnails* using all my free space

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Mon Aug 2 15:44:18 UTC 2010


On Monday 02 August 2010, user1 wrote:
> >> I have even tried following command
> >> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> >> /home/username/.kde/tmp-sda2-enc/* but the empty directories
> >> will still not go away.
> > 
> > rm -R <dir>
> > rm -Rf <dir>
> > 
> > hidden files?
> 
> It worked, but I had to do it as sudo, strange as you should not
> have to use sudo for your home dir?

Actually, if you removed those permissions, you just simply aren't 
allowed to do anything...
Only root can do pretty much anything regardless of permissions.

  --Reinhold




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