cnayak

Q: Can not clean from trash

Hi all,

 

My current OS Sierra 10.12 and The problem started on OS X El Capitan.

 

Problem:

  • I was getting Can not load data from apple software update on App Store, When tried on terminal with "softwareupdate" command - was getting operation could not be performed, permission denied even with sudo
  • I came to one forum post where the suggestion was to delete /var/folder/ZZ folder contents to get it to working state and i did the same (even though there was a warning to take backup before you follow it)
  • I could not start the OS after i deleted those files
  • I used thunderbolt to transfer those files from another mac system to the corrupted one
  • I got it to work but i found

 

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3293 Sep  5 22:39 DeferredInstallFixup.file_list

drwx------  2 root  wheel    68 Sep 19 04:34 PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware


these two files inside Trash folder in sub folders - "/Users/chandan/.Trash/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/C"

 

Now the Problem is i am not able to delete these files/folders.

 

Can some one help me to clean it, If these are system files used by system from this Trash location then how can i send it back to right place. This is annoying as i can not clean my Trash.

 

Thanks,

Chandan

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), null

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 8:29 PM