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Aitchb65 Author

Level 1

16 points

Unable to trash anything. Error -43 Can anyone advise?

As the title says I am unable to trash anything.

The pop up warning says: The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found.

(Error code -43) Which on checking is: File not found; Folder not found; Edition container not found; Target not found

The items I was trying to trash are on the desktop.

It started today when I was trashing some video clips downloaded from my Sony video camera. I was able to trash some other files from the same folder but then it all stopped.

The trash is empty.

I have 99GB left out of 500GB and wanted to move/delete a load of files to make more space.

I have checked and repaired permissions

I have verified the disk OK

I use Time machine for the Mac and have all my media on external HDs backed up to Ext HDs with Carbon Copy

Can anyone help

Mavericks

Software OS X 10.9 (13A603)

Henry

Numbers V3-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 16, 2013 6:47 AM

20 replies

Aug 24, 2016 4:35 PM in response to Aitchb65

I just ran into the same issue with the Error-43 and trash malfunction.

All I did was reboot and it worked.

OS X 10.11.6

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)

jcfergus

Level 1

4 points

Sep 23, 2016 4:56 PM in response to bsajiremm

I encountered the message deleting files from an external drive. When attempting to empty the Trash, it popped error -43 indicating that something couldn't be found. After deleting them, I had renamed the external volume.

I suspect this is why it could not "find" something.

Upon unmounting the external drive, the files were immediately removed from the Trash.

st3v1e

Level 1

77 points

Oct 15, 2016 3:08 PM in response to Aitchb65

Hi,

Just wanted to add another post to this as I've just had the same error -43 problem - and it still seems to be a problem even on 10.11.6:

Simple resolution as pointed out by jcfergus - I had 2 external drives mounted, unmounted both of these, tried to trash a few files, and everything worked as normal.

Looks like it may be an issue with other drives mounted!

dkzn

Level 1

9 points

Feb 20, 2017 7:42 AM in response to Aitchb65

same as you, couldn't trash anything on my desktop this morning ... code 43 ... ran my Cocktail application ... problem solved

zozi2021

Level 1

4 points

Sep 4, 2017 11:52 AM in response to bsajiremm

Thx!

Problem occured with os 10.12.5. Simple reboot solved.

Unable to trash anything. Error -43 Can anyone advise?