Google Drive - How to empty trash from code (programmatically)?

Question

Please help me to integrate a project with Google Drive. The problem is that Google Drive trash folder is never emptied, so eventually Google Drive synchronization with desktop stops working due to the lack of space.

I need either to configure the trash to not keep deleted files (preferred option) or empty it programatically from C# code (less preferred), or other programing language (last resort option) .

How do I empty Google Drive trash from code or script or whatever?

Answer 1

The Google Drive API doesn't expose a method to empty the trash but it has a delete method to delete files permanently, without sending them into the trash:

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/delete

You can also retrieve files from trash by checking the trashed label of the Files resource and then call delete on them.