Cannot move files to trash from 2nd internal drive

I have waht appear to be a profile specific issue that prevents me from moving files from a 2nd drive in my machine to the trash when using my standard profile.


I to to my 2nd internal drive and when I drag a file to the trash it asks me "Are you sure you want to delete "xxxxx.jpg" The item will be deleted immediately, You can't undo this action. If I click OK the item is delted and does not do to the trash. It aks liek is is an external drive, not an internal drive


But when I delete a file from my Macintosh HD drive the item goes to the trash as it should.


If I log into my Admin account, the files from the second internal drive moves to the trash normally. I have set my normal login from standard to admin and it stil has the issue, I also have run disk utility and disk warrior and rebuilt the directory, but it has not changed the problem


ANy ideas?

MacPro 2.0 Quad, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Apr 1, 2012 1:21 PM

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Apr 1, 2012 1:52 PM in response to BojPhoto

The drive's invisible Trashes folder might be corrupt. Try deleting it by entering this Terminal command:


rm -rf /Volumes/drivename/.Trashes


Then unmount the drive and remount it.


Make sure you have the data on the drived backed up. Mistyping that Terminal command by putting even a space in the wrong place can delete everything on it.

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