I deleted a lot of files and then did an "empty the trash". It hangs forever with 152 items to delete. I forced the system to reboot and ran through a safe startup, but it again hangs forever whenever I try to empty the trash.
MacBook (13-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7)
The excellent link to www.thexlab.com explained that the trash was in the hidden directory .Trash in the user's home directory.
I went into a terminal window, created a new trash directory named .Trash2 and made sure the permissions and ownership matched .Trash. Then I renamed the directories with the "mv" command so that .Trash became trash-old and .Trash2 became .Trash. That gave me a nice, empty trash wastbasket that worked normally.
Later I deleted the files in the trash-old directory using commands in a terminal windows. It turned out that deleting one of the directories in trash-old hung the terminal window, but I used a second window and saw that the killer directory was gone.
I guess there was something wrong with that directory.
Thanks.
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Thanks, this solved my problem. For some reason, peforming an "rm" on the .Trash folder would cause my terminal session to hang, but after renaming it and creating another .Trash folder I had no issues deleting the original (renamed) folder.
emptying the trash hangs
