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Q: Cannot Empty Trash

I've tried absolutely everything to empty the trash including the Terminal commands and nothing has worked. These are files/folders that have been corrupted along with corrupted file names that I cannot change. When I tried to change the names they keep reverting back to the original mess of punctuation marks, chinese characters and gibberish. The files names are excessively long and gives me an error message when I try to change the name.

 

I cannot pull the files/folders from the trash they will only copy to the desktop.  1 folder with files is from the startup hard drive and 1 folder with files is from an external hard drive. I've tried starting from another disk and still cannot empty the trash.

 

I'm at a complete loss as to how to rid my computer of these files. Anyone else have this problem.

 

El Capitan 10.11.5

MacPro mid 2010

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), Mid 2010 and Early 2008

Posted on Jul 5, 2016 3:54 PM

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  • by 4injas,

    4injas 4injas Jul 8, 2016 1:16 PM in response to cdhw
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    Mac OS X
    Jul 8, 2016 1:16 PM in response to cdhw

    Rebuilt again with no success. This is making my brain bleed.

  • by cdhw,

    cdhw cdhw Jul 8, 2016 4:53 PM in response to 4injas
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    Jul 8, 2016 4:53 PM in response to 4injas

    I think you must have corrupted filenames in the directory structure and for some reason Disk Warrior is not fixing them. You could raise this as an issue with Alsoft's technical support. At the very least not being able to fix this issue is a 'missing feature' and I'd call it a bug.

     

    My advice is that this is the time to give up trying to fix the problem and switch to a 'nuke and pave' strategy. Make sure you have a couple of good backups and then boot in recovery mode, reformat your disk, reinstall OS X clean, and then carefully copy back your data excluding the files with corrupt names.

     

         How to reinstall OS X on your Mac - Apple Support

     

    You might wish to wait a day of so, see if anyone else has other suggestions.

     

    C.

  • by 4injas,

    4injas 4injas Jul 9, 2016 4:55 AM in response to cdhw
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Jul 9, 2016 4:55 AM in response to cdhw

    C, ahhh the voice of reason. I'm contacting Alsoft tech support. It is their software that renamed these files and I believe that is the issue here. Trust me, if there is anything I do is backup and then backup some more. All it took was one loss several years ago to teach me that never-to-be-forgotten lesson.

     

    Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate your time and thought into this problem.

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