My trash can shows empty and other issues with it...

Run Disc Utility in the Utility folder to start....

Then repair permissions..

There's some other solutions for this as well, just can't seem to remember at the moment.

Open Finders Preferences and select the Advanced tab. Here you will see if you have "Empty Trash securely" enabled and "Show warning before emptying trash" enabled.

Boot from your recovery partition by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.

When the recovery desktop appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar.

In the Terminal window, enter “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A Reset Password window opens.

Select your boot volume if not already selected.

Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.

Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.

Select  ▹ Restart from the menu bar.

If you select a file in your user Documents folder and open the Get Info pane (Command I or File > Get Info), under the Sharing & Permissions section, does it show you with Read & Write priveleges? And if it does, do you get the prompt when you try to trash this?

Message was edited by: PAHU Woops - took too long to reply. I see that Linc has solved the issue for you.

I just had this same problem, Thank you Linc Davis!!! This is the fix/solution! Follow Linc's instructions and the problem will be solved. P.e.a.c.e