[mac4theblind] Re: Problems emptying the trash
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:01:43 -0500
you need to use terminal to fix this.
go to applications/utilities/terminal, open it, log in as root, type the
following command:cd /
users/username
substitute your name.
type:
rm -r .trash
make sure you type the period before the word trash.
press enter and your trans will be gone. restart the computer.
What worries me is what is in the trash. if it is stuff that was migrated or
linked from another drive, that should be fine but I remember seeing this when
system files were somehow dumped into the trash.
unless you know what is in there, you might want to take a walk through the
trash first.
Also, you might want to run permission repair first. Run empty trash with the
hot key after that to see if it clears up the problem. if not, see above.
On Jan 22, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Chris H <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good afternoon all.
I am having a problem eptying the trash. This has been happening for a while
now. Here is what I do.
1. I press command-shift-delete in the Finder.
2. I am asked if I want to securely erase the trash. This is my personal
preference so I let it go ahead.
3. I then get a window with the buttons remove unlocked files and remove all.
4. I click remove unlocked files.
5. It goes ahead and empties it for a while, but then I'm taken back to the
Finder. The same is true if I have clicked remove all.
But what concerns me is the window I described above, plus I have about 13,000
files in the trash, which just won't go away.
Should I consider booting to the recovery partition, erasing the Macintosh Hd
volume, then reinstall Mountain Lion from scratch?
This is on a 2012 Macbook Pro 13 inch without Retina Display.
Any responses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Chris.
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