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
Have you checked to see if you have 'Empty Trash securely' checked in Finder Preferences > Advanced?
Have you looked to see if the files/folders are locked?
Have you tried deleting the trash through terminal?
Hi,
Try Holding Down the Option Key and then Selecting Empty Trash
See Here:
Tried that - same result.
Have you Searched Mac Help in Finder for Empty Trash...?
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.
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)
The internal HD. Spotlight is not indexing. I'm just taking a look via terminal...
Have you checked to see if you have 'Empty Trash securely' checked in Finder Preferences > Advanced?
Makes no difference
Have you looked to see if the files/folders are locked?
Since there are lots of files in there, this coudl take a while via get info on each one. Don't know a way to find locked files.
Have you tried deleting the trash through terminal?
Yes. Terminal starts to execute the command - then nothing, it doesn't complete it.
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.
Go to /Applications /Utilities/Terminal and launch it.
At the prompt, copy and paste this command
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
Press Return.
You will be asked to enter your admin password. It will be invisible.
Enter it and press Return.
Log out and back in or restart.
If this doesn't work, then the files in the Trash are from another connected volume. Boot from that volume and empty its trash.
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.
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