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Feb 9, 2015 5:07 PM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,Have you repaired the drive lately?
Can you drag it out of the Trash & unlock it?
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Feb 10, 2015 5:48 AM in response to BDAquaby tbraun1551,I cannot drag it out and I have tried changing the permissions and that did not work and I cannot drag it out of the trash. Also I think i have repaired the disk recently and its been in my trash for about a month and I have been unable to delete it.
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Feb 10, 2015 10:23 AM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,No idea why rm didn't work, could it be trash from a different volume?
Did you try this...
Solving Trash Problems...
http://thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html
sudo rm -ri ~/.Trash
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Feb 11, 2015 1:36 PM in response to BDAquaby tbraun1551,This did not fix the issue I had with it. I am sure it is on this user and on this volume. I have tried dragging it out of the trash and unlocking it and neither have worked. And it will not drag out.
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Feb 11, 2015 3:04 PM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,If you move other files to the Trash, do they show there? Can those be Moved?
Any strange Characters in it's name?
Can you copy & paste the name here?
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Feb 11, 2015 6:29 PM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes, is any Cashplan thing running?
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), see if you can then empty it in Safe Mode.
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Feb 14, 2015 9:43 AM in response to tbraun1551by tbraun1551,I have already tried safeboot. I have uninstalled everything else crahsplan related but it still won't go away saying the item is still in use
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Feb 14, 2015 11:53 AM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,Files in use, here's how to find what is using it...
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040121001144687
Files in use, here's how to find what is using it...
Ever try to empty your trash, only to find that your request is refused because apparently some program is still using that file, so you get this nice message:
The operation cannot be completed because the item [whatever] is in use.
Sometimes this is a handy sanity check. Other times it's a downright nuisance, because you're just SURE that no program should legitimately be using that file. It happens to me frequently enough that I figure someone else could benefit from a little UNIX lore. The command-line UNIX program lsof rides to the rescue. This program lists all open files and file-like things. This is very handy, as nearly everything looks like a file in UNIX (and Mac OS X).
$ lsof | grep [whatever]
Where [whatever] is replaced with the filename you're looking for. With this, you can see which program is desperately holding onto your about-to-be-trashed file. Once you exit that program, your trash will empty.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040121001144687
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Feb 17, 2015 10:48 AM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,Open Terminal.app, then type it at the prompt.
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Feb 18, 2015 9:49 AM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,Might try this from jsd2...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2787466
Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) , and copy-paste the following line into the Terminal window, *followed by typing a single space. Do not type <Return> yet.*
sudo chflags nouchg
After typing the single space, drag the icon of the locked alias into the Terminal window, click inside the Terminal window, and type <Return>.
Enter your admin password at the prompt (it will not echo on the screen), and again type <Return>.
Now again Get Info on the file, and see if the Locked checkbox in the General section is now unchecked. If it is, you should now be able to either trash the file or change its permissions, as you wish.
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Feb 18, 2015 1:13 PM in response to BDAquaby tbraun1551,I tried the first terminal command and that did not work. The second one unlocked the thing but it still said it was in use
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Feb 18, 2015 2:14 PM in response to tbraun1551by BDAqua,So lsof didn't tell you what was using it?
