Permanently deleting trashed (deleted) files on attached WD MyPassport Device, Linux OS
(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the FIX). SCENARIO: Operating system is Ubuntu Linux 21.04 MyPassport USB drive attached. This drive is used both to back-up system using Déjà Dup, and to manually backup files from my hard drive. ISSUE: When moving files to Trash within the MyPassport directory, files are moved to MyPassport-created folders with names .Trash-1000, .Trash-1006, .Trash-1009, etc. Within these upper-level folders, one or more of the following sub-folders exist: expunged, files, info. One or more of the "files" folders will contain the unwanted / trashed folders and files. The unwanted / trashed folders and files cannot be permanently deleted from the MyPassport device using the...