[mac4theblind] Re: Problems emptying the trash
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:18:03 -0500
command-shift delete does the same as command-shift-option-delete as far as I
can tell.
On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wouldn't do what David suggests until you find out what you have in the
trash. Also, have you tried cmd-option-shift-delete instead of
cmd-shift-delete. But go to your trash and find out what is there first. The
only time I ever had that many files was when I was emptying the trash from a
lot i'd gotten rid of on my external drive. Then some wouldn't empty but after
I rebooted I did so. Personally, unless you can track down and explain what you
have in the trash, I would reinstall. it's good to knoe all thses things you
can do in terminal as root but the system isn't built so that you should be
having to resort to them under ordinary circumstances and I would find out why
before I did anything like this. Also, I always include "option" in all my move
to trash and all my empty trash activities.
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On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:01 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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