I'm using a virtual machine to run a Java web app. The OS is XFCE (Ubuntu) and I found the files that I want with the command find -name "something"
. These files are in ./.local/share/Trash/... So, I would like to know what is this repository? (Because the "trash" is freaking me out!)
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You probably don't want to store things in that trash folder. It's where deleted files go when a sudo user has deleted them as root.
See, for example, https://askubuntu.com/questions/246888/why-does-local-share-trash-still-use-lots-of-space-even-after-emptying-the-tr

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// , In OSX, I think the convention is to use `.Trash` for the trash folder owned by the user. – Nathan Basanese Mar 24 '16 at 18:11