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