[mac4theblind] Re: Problems emptying the trash
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:18:43 -0500
you can dispense with the dialogues in the advanced options of finder prefs. I
wish though there were a way to toggle this on the fly.
On Jan 22, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Option skips the confirmation dialog.
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On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:18 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> May the words of my mouth
> and the meditation of my heart
> be acceptable to You, Lord,
> my rock and my Redeemer.
> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>
>
>
> 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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