What are Trash and .Trash-1000?

GNOMEish file managers need a place to put trashed files.

  • Deleted files on your "home" partition go to: /home/username/.local/share/Trash
  • Deleted files on other partitions can't be copied there for performance and space reasons.

So it tries to put them in the /.Trash-$UID folder of the file's partition. Without rw access to that folder, no trash.

Run this bash in the partition root as the user who needs a trash.

sudo mkdir .Trash-$UID && sudo chown $USER:$USER .Trash-$UID

You can delete this folder and disable write access to the / to disable that feature.