How to remove a “Trash-1000” folder from a USB flash drive?

spark_sara

I recently got a digital photo frame and when removing photos I did the move to trash instead of Shift + Del and deleting proper and now I have a hidden folder with read only files that I can not remove. I have tried using the following commands sudo rm -rf : Said cannot remove read-only files system. rm rmdir : Said cannot remove read-only files system. chmod -v u+rw filename : Did nothing. mount -o remount, rw : Did nothing. I have been able...

Originally asked by Spencer W on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

For USB drives always mounting as read-only it can help to delete the parent folder of the default mountpoint, which on Arch-based distros is /run/media/$USER (and usb would be mounted at /run/media/$USER/myusbdrive ) and Ubuntu-based ones just /media/$USER ($USER is an environment variable containing the username). Unplug all drives, then delete the folder: cd /run/media ls # Confirm it's empty, nothing mounted anymore ls $USER rmdir $USER # In relevant cases will require root sudo rmdir $USER You can also simply write out the value of $USER instead of using the variable. If you now re-plug your thumbdrive it should mount writable as expected.

Full answer by cachius: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1935211 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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