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Running Mojave on my MacBook. An empty file was on my Passport external drive, and I moved it to the trash. I can't empty the trash or move the file. Force empty trash (Option key) doesn't work. I tried to move the file to the desktop and it just copied, leaving the troublesome file in the trash. Nothing will transfer to the Passport drive now and I also can't eject it.
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14
Boot into Safe Mode and try deleting from there.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
Then reboot normally.
Boot into Safe Mode and try deleting from there.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
Then reboot normally.
Can't delete a file (error code -50) and the external drive won't eject because of it.
