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I have a DNS-321 NAS drive which apparently runs Linux, so I logged in via ssh and I see .Trash-500 and .Trash-1000 directories. I realize that they're for trash, but why do I need two? Inside of them I see expunged, files, and info directories -- what are those for?

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You can find the answers in the The FreeDesktop.org Trash specification:

Some excerpts:

$topdir/.Trash-$uid directory is to be used as the user's trash directory for this device/partition. $uid is the user's numeric identifier.

The $trash/files directory contains the files and directories that were trashed.

The $trash/info directory contains an “information file” for every file and directory in $trash/files.

There is no reference to expunge directory, though.

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    [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bleachbit/+bug/388956) and [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/422012) are some info about `expunged`. It's apparently a temporary part of the process for emptying the trash, but stuff gets stuck if something can't be deleted. – Random832 Dec 03 '11 at 23:53
  • the correct link to the spec is: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/trash-spec/trashspec-latest.html – myrdd Jun 11 '23 at 16:15
  • regarding `$trash/expunged/`, see here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1297828/what-are-the-contents-of-contents-of-local-share-trash-expunged – myrdd Jun 11 '23 at 17:54