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Deleting icons from desktop that are linked to the WinXP side of the hard disk?

Asked by port-o-san

I made desktop icons to link two folders on the WinXP side of my dual-booted hard disk to my Ubuntu desktop.
When I try to put them in trash, I get an error message that says: Error: not on the same file system while deleting \home\port-...ypictures.

I later successfully linked the files, but want these earlier failed attempts to go away.
Opinions please?
Thanks and Blessings,
                                 Port-O-San

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Best Allen Chemist (alchemist) said : 		#1

Hi Port-O-San,

We have two possibilities to get rid of the nagging previous tries:

1. What does highlighting it then doing a shift+delete do? This should erase it rather than moving it to the trash (of course, be careful which one you are erasing this method)
2. Involves the command line. Click Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Once in the terminal, type (case sensitive):
cd Desktop

Then erase whatever by filename (For my example, I will assume MyPictures is a folder, and me.jpg are things to be removed)
rm me.jpg
rm -rf MyPictures

the -rf means to erase the folder and everything inside it, so be careful with that one!

Hope this helps!
-allen

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port-o-san (james-barnes) said : 		#2

Fixed the issue by going to Places,Desktop, clicked that up and deleted the icons from there - worked just fine!