'Previous System' in Trash - won't delete
10.10.2 on Macbook Pro
For some time (since upgrading to Yosemite) I have had a folder in my trash called 'Previous System'. I have no idea how it got there. I've been "living with it" for months. When I attempt to 'empty trash' it will empty everything except this folder. I get the message:
I click on 'Remove All Items' and get
I click 'Continue' and the same message is provided for:
- Volumes
- 2013-11-14-085217
- Applications (again)
- Volume (again)
- 2013-11-14-192252
- and so on and so on, cycling ad infinitum
If I open the Trash I can see the folder there, but there's nothing visible in the folder. Looks like there are some Time Machine files in there. Not sure what's going on.
In an attempt to solve this I have done all these (with no success):
- restarted and tried to empty.
- used 'Safe Boot' (with Shift Key) and tried to empty.
- used 'lsof' on the folder, found the process numbers using the file, killed the processes, attempted to empty. No joy. See below for what I get.
- tried rm -r /Users/[myusername]/.Trash/Previous\ System
- hold down 'option' and empty trash
- Secure Empty trash
None of these has worked. The folder persists.
My lsof command provided:
$ lsof /Users/[myusername]/.Trash/Previous\ System /Applications
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
UserEvent 2192 [myusername] 36r DIR 1,2 2992 10524680 /Applications
UserEvent 2192 [myusername] 39r DIR 1,2 2992 10524680 /Applications
Dock 2195 [myusername] 10r DIR 1,2 2992 10524680 /Applications
Dock 2195 [myusername] 12r DIR 1,2 2992 10524680 /Applications
I then killed process 2192 and 2195 but the dock process restarts immediately again.
Help! How can I empty this out of my trash?
