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mac wont empty trash

i cant empty my trash, when i click empty trash or empty securely the computer makes the sound associated with empting the trash but it doesn't. there is no message and the trash remains full. trying to empty single files or directories didn't work either. my trash has got close to 30 giga of information on it and its hindering my work hlp plz

macbook air, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 12, 2008 7:59 AM

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Jul 22, 2008 11:47 PM in response to yanivmuller

Side note - for me the issue was with multiple files with strange characters. I tried all the above solutions with no luck. I am running bootcamp so I thought I would try a check disk in windows. Sure enough it found the files and made the corrections to the disk. I rebooted into OSX and the files were gone.

mac wont empty trash

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