Q: Memory loss on trash clearance
I had a large ( 23Gb ) bootcamp image (Winclone) in a folder in the root directory and moved it to trash. I tried secure empty trash and it kept aborting giving reasons for applications in use, caches in use. These were unique to bootcamp so I know it was not OSX. After a frustrating 10mins I gave up with secure trash empty and just used trash empty. The deletion was successful however I only realised 12Gb of additional disc space not the 23Gb I was expecting. I have looked for other trash repositories and not found any. I am assuming this loss may be due to the way I deleted the trash, what is the best way of recovering this unavailable space? Any suggestion would be most welcome
Mac Book Pro Retina late 2012, OSX 10.5.9
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), Low data transfer rates
Posted on Jul 17, 2015 11:39 AM