MaryW

Q: Delete Trash Problem

I have no clue when it started but I just now found out I have a problem...LOL

 

Usually trash empties when told to, or I drag it out to the desktop and plop it into TrashIt to get rid of it.

 

Tonight I had an extremely stubborn file (a TimeMachine backup). I tried to delete and it would not go away so I then tried the drag to desktop thing and wow yes it got put on the desktop but it was still in the trash. I then tried to drag that one into the trash and it did go in there but no renaming of it...therefore 2 exact same files were in the trash can.

 

I then created a desktop folder named it with no special characters and trashed it. Opened the trash, hit empty and it did its thing, noise effect and its little bar showing it doing its thing...but everything was still in there

 

So I dragged the empty folder to the desktp and it stayed in trash can but duplicated on desktop.

 

I finally had to use Onyx to delete the items in the trash which worked but the icon remained with a full image. A restart got rid of the image being full.

 

Yes now the question after this newspaper I wrote.....why is it suddenly duplicating when removing items from trash to desktop instead of removing it like it should.

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 4GB ram, Early 2008

Posted on Aug 18, 2016 10:26 PM

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