Q: Trash can absolutely will not empty...
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Sep 4, 2016 9:19 AMby macjack,HelpfulHi Rodtheeditor, if your Trash is complaining it is in use have you tried going into Activity Monitor and quitting or force quitting the process associated with it. If your external is bootable, have you tried deleting it from within the Trash on that volume? Have you tried rebuilding the Trash?
And no, it isn't a bug. Yours is the only Mac experiencing it AFAIK.
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Sep 4, 2016 9:23 AMby Rodtheeditor,Thanks for the reply. If i go into the trash on the external all the files that are causing issues are shown there, but trying to delete them off there displays the exact same message. For rebuilding, if you mean restoring the files to their original locations, it doesn't even give me the option. If I try to drag them out of the trash, i get a dialog box saying "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "Filenamehere" can't be read or written. (Error code -36). I'll also mention I have full permissions on the drive, read & write....
In the activity monitor I haven't been able to locate any processes associated with any of the files, is there some way to do that that I'm not aware of?
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Sep 4, 2016 9:26 AMby tygb ,Hi !
Rodtheeditor
If you really want to delete the files , try one manual method restart the machine and empty the trash .
If it doesn't work try the steps in the article and lastly sudo command .
You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash - Apple Support
Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X - Apple Support
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Sep 4, 2016 9:35 AMby Rodtheeditor,Thanks but those 2 articles haven't been of any use. Even the sudo command does not work... when I try and use it, follow step by step everything in the article, the files will not delete. At the end of each line it will say: "Input/output error", or "Directory Not Empty"
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Sep 4, 2016 10:04 AMby tygb ,HelpfulTo execute sudo command we have to enter in Root user account , after completing the task please log out from root user account .
Articles are there : Mac OS X: sudo command requires a non-blank admin password - Apple Support
: Enabling and using the "root" user in OS X - Apple Support
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Sep 4, 2016 12:11 PMby Király,You need to delete the contents of the .Trashes folder on the external drive. This folder is hidden in Finder, but you can delete it with this Terminal command:
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/ExternalDriveName/.Trashes/*
Make sure you back up the external drive first. One space in the wrong place in the above command can erase the entire drive.
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Sep 4, 2016 12:23 PMby notcloudy,Have you shut down the system - to clear the Ram of any orphan modules that may have the files locked.
Did you crash out of software after deleting the files - in that case you may have to run the application in order to free the trash - had to do that with Photoshop Bridge CS3 as the recovered files in the Trash would not delete until the application was opened and created new versions of same that were automatically removed on proper exit from the software - go figure.
