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Hey everybody,
I was trying to move a 3.3gb file to trash to delete it and got the following in a popup : The trash has reached its maximum size!
Cleanup the trash manually.
There is nothing in the trash though !!
any clues appreciated.

1) Open terminal
2) cd /home/$USER/.local/share/Trash/
3) "sudo rm -rf *" (make <sure> of your location beforehand..."rm -rf *" deletes <everything> there, so if you're in the wrong location...opps
4) "sudo rm -rf .*"
5) "ls -la" to make sure everything is gone.

The normal Trash contents will be regenerated the next time you use Thunar to dump something in it.

If this doesn't work, my experience tells me that something has messed up the file system. At this point I just bite the bullet and reformat (of course I have backups