I downloaded OS X El Capitan. Now I can´t move documents to the trash, because i get the error - 43. Where is my mistake?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Sounds like a file permissions problem, or a corruption of the file tables. Error -43 is a 'file not found' error and can be a number of things.
I assume you can't right click a file and 'Move to Trash' either.
Assuming you have a valid TimeMachine or other backup, they these in order:
Further checks are to see if it does the same in other users accounts if you have any, or logon as Guest and see if you can trash any files as this will point out if it's a system wide thing or just in your user account.
Sounds like a file permissions problem, or a corruption of the file tables. Error -43 is a 'file not found' error and can be a number of things.
I assume you can't right click a file and 'Move to Trash' either.
Assuming you have a valid TimeMachine or other backup, they these in order:
Further checks are to see if it does the same in other users accounts if you have any, or logon as Guest and see if you can trash any files as this will point out if it's a system wide thing or just in your user account.
Are these files on an external drive, a network drive, or in a cloud-data service such as "Dropbox?"
Since a few minutes the move to trash works now, but I don´t now why!😁 Thank you for helping😍😍
The move to trash now works , but I don´t know why😕. Thank you for helping😍😍.
The move to trash now works, but i don´t know why😕. Thank you for helping😍😍
Having the same problem since El Capitan. Here's what I found that works for me:
- Hold down alt/option and right-click (or 2 finger tap) on the Finder icon in the Dock
- select Relaunch from the menu
This will restart Finder which fixes the problem for me for a while, and then it breaks again, so you have to repeat the process. Not sure what's causing it but at least this workaround is a lot less intrusive than a logout/reboot.
I hope Apple will figure out what's going on and release a fix for it soon.
Very helpful thanks.
Lets hope they sort this out.
I had the same issue and this fixed it. Thank you, dhosx!
Quitting Finder and restarting it worked for me.
Cheers Fnordmeister, this worked for me too. Force-Quit the Finder.
I had other finder issues as well - no icon previews for example. Force-Quit Finder sorted it all.
Thanks 🙂
If all else fails you can rm -rf ~/.Trash
This will remove the trash folder (and everything in it) then force OS X to create a new one the next time something is placed in the trash.
I downloaded OS X El Capitan. Now i can´t move documents to the trash, i get the error - 43. Can someone help please?
