luckybuck
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Q: trash shows always empty

Hi together!

 

 

My trash always shows empty in the dock, regardless how much is inside.

 

When opening the trash folder, the mini icon shows correct, but the icon in the dock shows empty.

 

After empting the trash the icon shows empty, of course.

 

Inserting something in the trash doesn't show a full trash.

 

Have already cleared the trash via terminal and created a new one.

 

Have fixed all rights, hds and so on, no success.

 

Have logout and login, no success.

 

Has anyone an idea?

 

Any help of any kind is very appreciated. :-)

 

 

Thank you all very much in advance, with best wishes from Germany,

 

Roland

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 2, 2013 7:14 PM

by luckybuck,Solvedanswer
luckybuck luckybuck
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A:

Dear Carolyn,

 

 

that you very much for your help, I really appreciate that. :-)

 

Your suggestion did not solve my problem. Even a reset of the PRAM doesn't.

 

But meanwhile I found a solution, that worked:

 

From a backup I took:

 

Dock.app

 

and

 

Finder.app

 

from:

 

/System/Library/CoreServices/

 

changed the rights and replaced them with the original ones. Then a restart and everything was fine again. :-)

 

Thank you very much for your help.

 

 

All the best,

 

Roland

Posted on Aug 4, 2013 4:06 PM

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Q: trash shows always empty

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Aug 3, 2013 2:22 AM in response to luckybuck
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    Aug 3, 2013 2:22 AM in response to luckybuck

    Open the Finder.

     

    From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

     

    Type or copy paste the following:

     

    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

     

    Click Go then move the com.apple.dock.plist file to the Trash.

     

     

    Restart your Mac.

  • by softwater,

    softwater softwater Aug 3, 2013 4:33 AM in response to luckybuck
    Level 5 (5,392 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 3, 2013 4:33 AM in response to luckybuck

    Rather than trashing your entire Dock Preferences, you could just do this, in Terminal:

     

    defaults read com.apple.dock trash-full

     

    If you have trash, it should read '1'. If it returns '0' and trash is not empty, then do

     

    defaults write com.apple.dock trash-full -bool TRUE

     

    It should now show as having trash. Empty the trash and ensure that the icon changes to empty.

  • by luckybuck,Solvedanswer

    luckybuck luckybuck Aug 4, 2013 4:06 PM in response to Carolyn Samit
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    Aug 4, 2013 4:06 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

    Dear Carolyn,

     

     

    that you very much for your help, I really appreciate that. :-)

     

    Your suggestion did not solve my problem. Even a reset of the PRAM doesn't.

     

    But meanwhile I found a solution, that worked:

     

    From a backup I took:

     

    Dock.app

     

    and

     

    Finder.app

     

    from:

     

    /System/Library/CoreServices/

     

    changed the rights and replaced them with the original ones. Then a restart and everything was fine again. :-)

     

    Thank you very much for your help.

     

     

    All the best,

     

    Roland

  • by luckybuck,

    luckybuck luckybuck Aug 4, 2013 4:08 PM in response to softwater
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    Aug 4, 2013 4:08 PM in response to softwater

    Dear softwater,

     

     

    that you very much for your help, I really appreciate that. :-)

     

    Your suggestion did not solve my problem. Even a reset of the PRAM doesn't.

     

    But meanwhile I found a solution, that worked:

     

    From a backup I took:

     

    Dock.app

     

    and

     

    Finder.app

     

    from:

     

    /System/Library/CoreServices/

     

    changed the rights and replaced them with the original ones. Then a restart and everything was fine again. :-)

     

    Thank you very much for your help.

     

     

    All the best,

     

    Roland

  • by himmel2064,

    himmel2064 himmel2064 Feb 22, 2014 5:46 AM in response to softwater
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    Feb 22, 2014 5:46 AM in response to softwater

    This solved it for me. Thanks!

  • by HerryTruong,

    HerryTruong HerryTruong Jun 6, 2014 7:53 AM in response to himmel2064
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    Jun 6, 2014 7:53 AM in response to himmel2064

    You can try it

     

    $ defaults write com.apple.dock trash-full -bool YES

    $ killall Dock


  • by bananafish1978,

    bananafish1978 bananafish1978 May 2, 2015 10:53 AM in response to HerryTruong
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    May 2, 2015 10:53 AM in response to HerryTruong

    I'm not sure if I had the exact same problem as the original poster,but this helped me exactly! Now my trash shows that there IS trash in the folder rather than always looking empty when I delete items.

    THANKS