Q: How to empty that trash that won't empty!
It was not possible to securely empty my trash. I have been trying for day and tired it all i am sure... but no way! my trash won't empty... I even used the terminal / sudo commands but couldn't type my password! it was not type-able! So i did the last option I had left... I downloaded Trashit! from Cnet and it did work! my trash is now finally empty!
"Now" my QUESTION is: "was it a safe secure solution to empty my trash with the free software Trashit ? was it a wise action and is my trash securely emptied? I hope I get some answer because so far this community has almost no solutions that I found so far
Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Mar 6, 2016 11:23 PM
rehillar wrote:
It was not possible to securely empty my trash. I have been trying for day and tired it all i am sure... but no way! my trash won't empty... I even used the terminal / sudo commands but couldn't type my password! it was not type-able! So i did the last option I had left... I downloaded Trashit! from Cnet and it did work! my trash is now finally empty!
"Now" my QUESTION is: "was it a safe secure solution to empty my trash with the free software Trashit ? was it a wise action and is my trash securely emptied? I hope I get some answer because so far this community has almost no solutions that I found so far
I can't answer that, but the reason Apple removed the ability to securely empty trash is that it doesn't work with modern disk drives and SSDs; there is no way to guarantee that you are overwriting anything as data locations are dynamically moved around. As there is no way to securely empty trash Apple decided not to lull you into a sense of false security.
Posted on Mar 7, 2016 7:46 AM