Last evening in doing an online search I was able to find a sudo script that erased the majority of the images in the trash bin.

This was:   sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

As going through this process of erasing on the Pi hard drive is quite tedious I would certainly prefer locating my FITS images on a USB flash drive, but I've found that this just doesn't work.

I may end up getting an extra long ethernet cable and snake it through my house and outside to prove out whether bad WiFi signal is the culprit of the whole download latency or failure issue.

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