My trash won't empty on my macbook pro, what do I do?

Use CCleaner for Mac, works very well and automatically.

There is a free version of CCleaner. Download it, and save in the applications folder.

i have looked in the help box on my MAC, searched through various online forums, communities, help sites, and FINALLY found your suggestion, which actually WORKED!!

Thanks so very much for solving my "empty trash" issues.

I had a similar problem on a client laptop today, running Leopard. None of the listed solutions worked; I did narrow it down to some specific files in the trash (from an old OS that was on a G3, carried over using Migration Assistant).

So I went to my old standby Batchmod, a free utility downloaded from Macupdate.com. I did have to use a prior version to be compatible with Leopard; for some reason the current version kept crashing, even though it said it should be compatible. Batchmod was created to work with permissions, but there is a handy Force Empty Trash function in its menus.

Something that you can do is:

1. Open terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)

2. Copy and paste this command: sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

3. Type your password

4. Done

Thanks 🙂

Yay...this worked! Thanks

Thanks! This actually worked. The important part is to make sure and hold the shift key along with the option key. Thanks again!!

My spouse was having problems and I came upon this thread while searching for a solution. It worked like a charm to fix the problem - thank you 🙂!

thank you this is just what i needed. 🙂 finally

Thank you. Holding down the option key worked!

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I tried all the previous suggestions, all the complicated once, and they didn't work. Then i saw your suggestion about the activity monitor and "lucuma" and it worked!

Thank you, I was about to pull all of my eyebrow hairs off in frustration because everything else did not work. Your amazing