Deleting Items in X

[Jayem]

I have about 5000 files in my trash that i can't delete because of one folder/file. I dont have the "privilages". How do i override this?

 

[julguribye]

In terminal enter in your home dir: cd .Trash
Then enter: ls to see what the name of the file/folder is.
Last enter: sudo rm file/foldername
You will be asked for your password, press enter and you will newer see that file again.
Then try to empty the trash.

 

[hazmat]

Or if you want to empty the trash, just:

rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

Poof. I noticed that to get the trash icon to change to empty, I have to tell it to empty. :-/