I've upgraded to Lion and for the most part I love it. However, I can't empty (for force-empty) my trash. When I select 'empty trash' I get the progress bar to say that the trash is being emptied, but nothing happens. I've left it for hours. Relaunched Finder, restrarted my Mac etc. I'm not short of HD space.
MacBook Pro
Is this on the internal or on an external drive (USB,FW) ?
By the way: Is spotlight still indexing your drive ? (a small dot in the magnifier in the menu bar)
Have you Searched Mac Help in Finder for Empty Trash...?
OF COURSE.
Maybe you shall try to sudo the rm command.
Maybe you shall try to sudo the rm command.
I have, thanks. Exactly the same: looks like it's executing; isn't.
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
THANKS VERY MUCH, MACJACK. Sorted. I'm sending cake.
If that worked for you then apparently you didn't try deleting the trash using Terminal, which is what I originally asked you.
AMMONCAN. When I said I had tried, and failed, I wasn't lying as you imply. I just hadn't used sudo I'd used rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
Yeah you have to have sudo in there. I am just glad that you have solved your issue.
I think there's a space after "rf". Best to copy/paste the command from here.
What exactly does the sudo chflags nouchg ~/.Trash/* command do? Just want to make sure I know what I am doing before I actually do it. Thanks!
that worked! i was erasing a back up file and that did it after an hour of trying to get it done. thanks!
So, I had the same issue.
What I just did not do...
But only helped:
sudo chflags nouchg ~/.Trash/*
then
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
Now my Trash is Empty!
I can't empty my trash
