Chromium can't clear browsing data

Question

When I attempt to "Clear browsing data" in chromium I see the following in a terminal.

 [...] RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty
 [3640:3669:0206/181710:ERROR:plugin_data_remover_impl.cc(263)]
 ClearSiteData returned error

How can I tell which directory it is having problems with?

This is using

Chromium 32.0.1700.102 Ubuntu 13.10

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Chromium seems to use the following directories:

~/.config/chromium
~/.cache/chromium

^{Where ~ represents the home directory in /home
The . before the files mean they are hidden, so you need to press Ctrl+H to view them in file browser.}

You can remove files with ubuntu-tweak's Janitor feature, or with BleachBit: enter image description here

or simply by running:

rm -rf ~/.config/chromium
rm -rf ~/.cache/chromium

And if you want to be sure it has been removed, you can use srm:

srm -rf ~/.config/chromium
srm -rf ~/.cache/chromium

Which overwrites the files etc, and may give more effective information if rhe folders cannot be deleted.

For all of the above, make sure chromium is not running.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Feb 06 '14 at 19:45

Wilf

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I did rm -rf ~/.config/chromium ; rm -rf ~/.cache/chromium but I still get exactly the same errors. – marshall Feb 06 '14 at 22:25
Do the files even exist? Look in `.config` & `.cache` in your home directory, and see if they exits - that may be the issue. The files are automatically generated on Chromium being opened. – Wilf Feb 06 '14 at 23:02
ls -lad .config/chromium/ drwx------ 5 marshall marshall 4096 Feb 6 22:25 .config/chromium/ .ls -lad .cache/chromium/ drwx------ 3 marshall marshall 4096 Feb 6 22:25 .cache/chromium/ – marshall Feb 07 '14 at 10:01
Weird.. Try using `srm` instead. – Wilf Feb 07 '14 at 10:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '14 at 10:30

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You can also use Ubuntu tweak's janitor.

enter image description here

answered Feb 07 '14 at 10:30

Parto

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