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Mr. Dan C. Author

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The AssetsV2 folder in my Trash cannot be deleted. Now what?

Hi there: My MacBook Pro had a hard failure recently, so I wiped the drive and migrated from the Data volume. I new see this mysterious folder on my Desktop:

Previously Relocated Items 3 > Security > System > Library > AssetsV2

I can drag it to the Trash, but I can't delete it. I don't really want to now, since it's clearly filled with necessary system libraries. But how do I at least move it out of the Trash to somewhere less intrusive?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 5, 2020 12:19 PM

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Barney-15E

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Posted on Oct 5, 2020 2:46 PM

Relocated Items, as the PDF in the folder described, are files that were changed by the installer and no longer needed. They are put there in case you had made the changes to the configuration files and need to update the new configurations.

For some reason, those sometimes are blocked as you found.

You can just move the relocated items folder back into /Users/Shared.

The item on your Desktop was just an alias that pointed to the actual folder in Shared.

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