Hello, I use OS X El Capitan and I am very pleased but the trash suddenly crashed and stopped working. I get a error message when I drag the items to the trash as the screenshot. I tried to fix this problem but I can not.
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), 13-Inch, Mid-2009
What happens if you simply restart the computer? What did you do to try and fix the problem? What happened when you did?
Please relaunch the Finder.
Hello, I only tried to restart my computer to solve this problem but it was not be successful.
See You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash. If this doesn't make any progress, then:
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on solving Trash issues. You can also try using Trash It! 5.1to fix the problem. Or you can try this:
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and paste the following at the prompt:
sudo rm -Rf ~/.Trash
Press RETURN. Enter your admin password when prompted. It will not echo to the screen. Press RETURN again.
(Should anyone tell you this is dangerous or unnecessary, please ignore the comment.)
Hello, your suggestion was successful but now I can not see the deleted items in the trash and the trash is seen empty!
now I can not see the deleted items in the trash and the trash is seen empty!
Isn't that what you wanted?
I can not see the items that I delete. The trash always seen empty, I can not find the deleted folders.
1. Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/.Trash
2. Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Show Info in Finder (or just Show Info)
from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.
3. The dialog should show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section. If that's not what it shows, click the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the window and enter your password when prompted. Use the plus- and minus-sign buttons to give yourself Read & Write access and "everyone" No Access. Delete any other entries in the access list.
4. In the General section, uncheck the box marked Locked if it's checked.
5. From the action menu (gear icon) at the bottom of the dialog, select
Apply to enclosed items
and confirm.
6. Close the Info window and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.
Sorry, but I can not understand what will I do exactly. Is there any screenshots or videos that show how can I do this?
open terminal and type
sudo rm -rf "~/.Trash"
and insert your account password
then type
sudo rm -rf "/.Trashes"
restart your system
I tried it but it did not work.
I'm asking you to select a line of text in Step 1. Can you do that?
well, enter into recovery and repair permissions on your hd
then create a new user and look if his trash works correctly
if so, you have to delete your current user
No, I can not understand how I do it.
~/.Trash
How or where should I write them and how can I do this? (App - Utilities - Terminal section?)
yes terminal, copy and paste...
OS X El Capitan - Trash Issue!
