Q: El Capitan - Trash won't empty! Tried the community suggestions already.
I read all the other threads about it, and I tried practically all the suggestions. Nothing worked.
From the terminal command, to the option command delete...
I have a 4Tb external hard drive, that act as my backup for all my other hard drives, iPod, and for my thumb drives, Grad School, and my numerous movies and tv series. It is plugged on my iMac, running El Capitan.
The only thing I didn't do of all the threads suggestions' - because I can't - is to format my external hard drive.
But 3 months ago, after transferring the series I had on my 500Gb hard drive to my 4Tb one, I realised that I didn't want to keep 2 of the series. So I moved them - their folders) to the Trash.
So my nightmare started. I can't delete it from the trash, no matter what I do.
I click delete, and it says "The operation can be completes because the item "TVSERIES" is in use. That message showed all the time I was trying the suggestions.
It seems to think the hard drive is using the file, but the file can't even be found at the hard drive no more. I don't know how to make iMac understand that my hard drive isn't using it at all.
Anyone has any idea how to solve this issue?
Thanks
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
Posted on Jun 25, 2016 8:45 PM

