Trash Reappearing After Emptying Bin

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Trash Reappearing After Emptying Bin

I have several files that keep reappearing in my trash bin. The files were originally deleted several weeks ago. I have attempted to remove them both in the UI ("empty trash") and via CLI (rm -rf), but they return within a few minutes.

The files were originally located in iCloud Drive, and "get info" of the files within the bin shows them as being in:

 /Users/xxx/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/.Trash

I am not sure whether this issue existed prior to the Big Sur upgrade.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 25, 2020 3:06 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Dec 9, 2020 4:44 AM in response to Lennys26

Well, I can't guarantee that this will work, but may be worth a try.

1) logout from iCloud

2) make sure that none of the files in question remain; deleted them if they are still present

3) go to iCloud website, and check to see if they still appear there; if they do, delete them

4) login to iCloud on your mac again.

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Lennys26 Author

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Nov 25, 2020 4:51 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hi. As mentioned, the files were deleted weeks ago, therefore they do not exist in iCloud.

I have already tried manually deleting the files from the .Trash folder (above), but now will try deleting the entire .Trash folder.

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Lennys26 Author

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Dec 9, 2020 4:33 AM in response to Lennys26

Well, I marked this as solved as it lasted for several days, however this files have returned, so the issue remains.

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Nov 25, 2020 3:43 AM in response to Lennys26

Try opening icloud drive in your browser and deleting those files there.

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