clean up trash in elementary OS 0.4 Loki

Question

How to look for the trash and clean them up in elementary OS 0.4 Loki?

Answer 1

What trash are you speaking of? If you mean items in your trash folder, just delete them.

If you mean files/libraries that are no longer needed you can run

sudo apt autoremove

you can also install bleachbit to clear up lingering "junk" files

sudo apt install bleachbit

Answer 2

You can access the Trash in Pantheon Files via trash:/// or the sidebar icon trash.

You can empty it by right-clicking on the icon and selecting Empty Trash from the menu.

Answer 3

You can install the trash-cli package

sudo apt install trash-cli

To list files run the following command:

trash-list

To clean up the trash run:

trash-empty

To remove files that have been to trash for N days run :

trash-empty N

Also you can use it as root.