Unable to Empty Trash of "locked items"

Tried again after reboot?

Have you tried dragging them out of the trash and "Get Info", then under General (turn the disclosure triangle if necessary) and un-check mark, "Locked".

Another way would be to use terminal. Copy and paste this at the command line then, press return.

sudo chflags nouchg ~/.Trash/*

You will be prompted for your password, when you enter it, it will not be visible.



-mj

Message was edited by: macjack

OK, then it's clear that the folder is coming from your Boot Camp Windows partition. Reboot in Windows and use Scandisk to repair your Windows HD. You can also try to repair your Windows partition in OS X using Disk Utility.

If both do not help you may need to empty the contents of the folder ".Trashes" on /Volumes/<NAME OF WINDOWS HD>

Message was edited by: Björn Herrmann

Just for reference; There's a piece of software called BatChmod that allows you to unlock unlockable items and change permissions. It's helped me out of this problem before.

Message was edited by: Danny Clancy1

Thanks, having same problems (locked items in trash) and Batchmod isn't working. I go through the whole cycle and the file's still locked. Holding down the option key while selecting delete doesn't work either. Help! There's have a GB of trash I need to get rid of!