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Hi Friends

I cannot delete shortcuts on desktop
I am getting this message
" Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use "

Please help me in deleting these shortucts Actually i want blank desktop so please help me i tried everything i tried to clean desktop but no use please help me

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Member Avatar for sn4rf3r 
#check disk usage
df -h

#if it is a symlink
unlink filename

#if it is a directory or file
rm -Rf  filename

#if you ar ereally adventurous...
rm -Rf ~/Desktop/*
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Are you using ubuntu?

If you are, i think you can right click and go to properties. There should be an option where you can tick the "write" boxes. That should work.

When you make a shortcut its usually only "read only".

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