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Emptying trash containing locked back-ups from Trash

I deleted older back-ups from my Time Machine external drive. The deletions ended up in the trash. Now I have two documents, boot.efi and BootX, that I cannot seem to empty from the trash. Icons of the documents have a padlock next to them. When I try to unlock by clicking on Get Info the "locked" selection is grayed out. How do I get this "trash" to empty?


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iMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 4, 2013 8:34 PM

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Posted on Jul 4, 2013 11:03 PM

Hold down the option key and empty the Trash.

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Emptying trash containing locked back-ups from Trash

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