Q: Error: "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items."
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Mar 30, 2014 11:25 PMby Linc Davis,You have a TrueCrypt volume mounted. Unmount it. You also seem to be showing hidden files in the Finder. If you know how you did that, undo it.
The computer-illiterate shell command would not work even if you ran it and didn't delete all your files, perhaps including all backups.
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Mar 30, 2014 11:39 PMby NewbMacUser,Thanks, but I've already unmounted the Truecrypt container and I still get the same error.
I've mounted the Truecrypt container and I still get the error...
Is there a way I can just delete whatever is in the trash without harming my backups?
Can I run an OSX equivalent to 'safe mode'?
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Mar 31, 2014 3:46 AMby R C-R,You may find Apple's You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash article helpful.
Also note that among the other Apple articles it links to are several archived ones, like Archived - Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X, which mentions several forms of the "rm -rf" command & the warnings about using them correctly.
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Mar 31, 2014 4:55 AMby NewbMacUser,Thanks! I'm looking at this now: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1526
Can anyone recommend me another solution? Is there a way I can boot into 'Recovery Mode' and empty the trash?
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Mar 31, 2014 6:42 AMby Linc Davis,This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
{ diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list; } | pbcopyCopy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.
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Apr 4, 2014 8:16 AMby NewbMacUser,Alright I just entered the command into Terminal and got this:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.7 GB disk1
1: Windows_FAT_32 Lexar 15.7 GB disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *7.9 GB disk2
1: Windows_NTFS Untitled 7.9 GB disk2s1
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
