I have three files in trash that cannot be deleted
I have parallels on my BigSur MacBook Pro. Today I downloaded installers for High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina, then copied them on to a flash drive for archiving. I moved them to trash, but now I can't delete them. Here's what Ive tried:
- Empty Trash (I get "The operation can’t be completed because the item “Install macOS Mojave” is in use."
- Tried emptying Trash after booting in Safe Restart. Same issue
- Did a "Get info" on each file, and changed permissions to "Everybody :: read/write", but that hasn't helped.
- Tried launching terminal, then
$ cd /Users/<myid>/.Trash
$ ls -al (shows nothing)
$ sudo su -
$ cd /Users/<myid>/.Trashes
$ ls -al (shows nothing)
- If I <open terminal here> with one of the items in trash highlighted, I end up at
$ pwd
/Users/<myid>/.Trash/Install macOS Mojave.app
$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xrwx 3 root wheel 96 Jan 24 09:23 .
drwx------ 5 <myid> staff 160 Jan 24 19:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Jan 24 19:54 Contents
$ rm -rf Contents # Get "Operation not permitted"
$ sudo rm -rf Contents # Get "Operation not permitted"
$ cd .. # to /Users/<myid>/.Trash
$ lsof | grep -i "install macos" # Returns nothing (no locks on files)
$ cd "
- I can't seem do anything with chown, chmod, either with or without sudo.
Not sure what I can do to remove these three installer files that are eating almost 20Gb from my drive.
Does anybody have any idea how I can get rid of them?
MacBook Pro Retina