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May 12, 2015 8:55 AM in response to deerhound2by Paul_31,With the items in the Trash, select 'Secure Empty Trash' from the Finder menu.
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May 12, 2015 8:55 AM in response to deerhound2by thunderzzz,Hi. Hope these articles will helpful:
You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash - Apple Support
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May 12, 2015 9:11 AM in response to deerhound2by leroydouglas,If you reboot and secure empty trash- should not be a problem.
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May 12, 2015 9:22 AM in response to deerhound2by Kurt Lang,If all else fails, follow these steps.
1) Pull the item out of the trash to the desktop. In this case, bring the top level folder out. Just leave the subfolder and alias in it.
2) Open Terminal. Type the following line (do not press Enter yet):
sudo rm -r
3) Put a space after the -r . Now drag and drop the folder on the desktop into the Terminal window. It's name and path will be added after what you typed.
4) Press Enter. If you've never used sudo before, you'll get a generic message about the possible dangers of using the command. Continue. It will then ask for your admin password. Type that in and press enter again.
The folder should be deleted.
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May 12, 2015 10:14 AM in response to Kurt Langby deerhound2,I tried this. When I drag the folder to the desktop, the folder stays in the trash, even though it appears on the desktop also.
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May 12, 2015 10:22 AM in response to deerhound2by leroydouglas,You can always remove the Trash directory, it will automatically rebuild a new one.
In terminal copy and paste:
sudo rm -ri ~/.Trash
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May 12, 2015 10:33 AM in response to leroydouglasby deerhound2,This was the response in Terminal:
Last login: Tue May 12 13:27:37 on ttys000
You have mail.
Andreas-Macbook-2:~ john$ sudo rm -ri ~/.Trash
examine files in directory /Users/john/.Trash?
I hit return, and got this response:
Andreas-Macbook-2:~ john$
Item is still in trash.
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May 12, 2015 10:35 AM in response to deerhound2by Kurt Lang,Which means the item was copying out of the trash rather than moving. Try leroydouglas' method to remove the hidden trash folder itself.
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May 12, 2015 10:50 AM in response to deerhound2by leroydouglas,deerhound2 wrote:
This was the response in Terminal:
examine files in directory /Users/john/.Trash?
N for no
Y for yes
the i - Request confirmation
You can run the modified command:
sudo rm -r ~/.Trash
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May 12, 2015 4:43 PM in response to deerhound2by leroydouglas,These files are they originally deleted from an external HD/SSD? Try mounting these volumes and delete.
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May 12, 2015 4:52 PM in response to deerhound2by leroydouglas,highlight your file in the trash, command i will open the info pane.
unlock the padlock and give yourself read write permissions or expand the Sharing and Permission information then check the ignore ownership.
Also under info>general> uncheck the Locked box if it applies.


