Intel Mac :: Cannot Empty A File Inside Trash
May 10, 2012I have a file inside trash that cannot be emptied. It says the file is in use. I close all application programs and rebooted it.
Info:iPad 2, iOS 5.1
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OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Error - You Can't Empty The Trash Or Move A File To The Trash
Apr 25, 2012How can I retrieve downloaded apps, files, music, videos and documents that I put in the trash?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Error - You Can't Empty The Trash Or Move A File To The Trash
Jul 5, 2012You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Can't Empty The Trash Or Move A File To The Trash
Feb 2, 2012Do most people who download QuickTime also downloads iTunes?
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Windows 7
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Can't Empty The Trash - Move A File To The Trash
May 28, 2012I can't delete anything in trash
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: Strange File In Trash Won't Empty
May 31, 2009See attached screenshot, I don't even know what that character is in the file name. Anyway it's always in my trash no matter how many times I click "Empty Trash". Don't know what this file is, or how it was made on Jan 1st, 1904.
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Feb 3, 2010My problem is with 300+ files in 2 folders that are left over from mac 9. They are in the trash, and are now locked, utterly. When I try to empty the trash, the error message says "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items." As you may know, when dealing with multiple "disks" (read: partitions), Mac X puts a .Trash or .Trashes folder on each disk. The trash folders on my computer are located on the following paths:
/users/(my name)/.Trash
/volumes/HD_1/.Trashes/501.................
OS X V10.4 :: Can't Empty Trash Or Move A File To It
Jun 3, 2012If I begin an install that never completed and have moved the .dmg file to trash how do I delete it when the error message is: item is in use and cannot be deleted?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Can't Empty Trash Or Move A File To It
Jun 11, 2012Can single files in the trash bin be emptied?
2.Can one be absolutley certain, that files in the trash bin are not being accessed and used by any application.Mac OS X 10.7.4
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Yosemite :: Repeating File In Trash / Can't Empty It
Dec 2, 2014I got this forever looping combination of folders in my Trash, and now it won't let me empty the trash. It's kind of hard to explain, but if I open the trash, there is a folder in there called "RaceImages 11.36.24 AM [7/3]". If I drill into that folder, it goes on forever like this....
"RaceImagesThumbs > Desktop > RaceImages > RaceImagesThumbs" and on and on, repeating for basically ever. I could drill down to eternity and still not be able to delete the trash. I've drilled down through that repeating sequence a hundred times and still not seen an end.
If I attempt to empty the trash, it first says "the operation can't be completed because the item 'ML1_2014' is in use.", but I don't see that file. If I click continue, it says it can't be completed because the item "Desktop" is in use, and from there my repeating folder nightmare starts. Clicked 'Continue' a 100 times and the same sequence of folders as above are "in use".
Tried "Secure Empty" the trash, tried the finder menu "Option > Empty Trash". All to no avail...same error messages.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 3.4 GHz i7, 27"
OS X :: Cannot Empty Trash (file On External Hard Drive)
Nov 9, 2008I have a folder which I deleted from my external hard drive. Whenever I empty Trash, I get the insufficient privileges error. The folder is empty.
I've tried emptying the trash, securely emptying the trash and used these Unix commands in Terminal too:
rm -rf .Trashes
rm -rf [directory]
sudo rm -rf [directory]
rmdir [directory]
MacBook Air :: Empty Trash Not Working - Getting (File Is Still In Use) Message
Jun 3, 2012I have 2011 MacBook air and I tried to empty the trash, and only one file wouldn't delete because 'the file is still in use', but the application was turned off. So then I went to finder and clicked secure empty trash, which then proceeded in emptying, but it stayed that way for a long time so I clicked close. Then, it did seem to close, but then didn't and was stuck in deleting.
At that point the Air's fans began to crank up full speed and became extremely hot. I tried to turn off but didn't work so I just put it to sleep at the moment. I'm new with Mac ( in fact this is my first Mac) so I had no clue what to do. In windows I just do ctrl+alt+delete but what should I do with Mac to close the frozen command (in this case secure empty trash). I got scared bc of the fans and the heat. What should I do?
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MacBook Air
OS X :: How Unsecure Is Empty Trash Compared To Secure Empty Trash?
Aug 31, 2009I moved a bunch of files to the trash can after installing Snow Leopard, mainly backup files from OmniFocus.
I clicked Secure Empty Trash and over 500,000 items began deleting. These 500,000+ items deleted at the rate of 2-3 items a second. This would total 138 hours equaling over 5 days to Secure Empty the trash.
This is just ridiculous in my option so I just did the "Empty Trash" feature, showing me only 350 items, which deleted quickly in under 5 minutes...
So far I know with Secure Empty Trash that the trash is securely layered with 0's & 1's....but wonder what happens with just "Empty Trash?"
How easily accessible is it for someone to retrieve something that i've deleted?
Mac Pro :: Cannot Empty Trash Folder - Deleting Downloaded Win Based File?
Jun 2, 2012I downloaded a windows based file, (2GB) and my Trash Folder will not delete. It keeps hanging up when I try to delete. What cleaner can I get to completely delete?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Intel Mac :: Getting A White Screen With Flashing File Icon With Question Mark Inside The File?
Apr 6, 2012We are getting a white screen with flashing file icon with question mark inside the file.
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iMac
Intel Mac :: Trash Will Not Empty?
Feb 23, 2012Trash items will not delete even if accept delete all files including locked files when emptying trash
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Intel Mac :: Can't Empty The Trash
Mar 19, 2012I have put a large amount of data into the Trash, including some back-ups. It will not empty now - it calculates the size of the task, shows about 1.9m and then reduces by one of two and stops.
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Mar 30, 2012Cleaning out an external drive. Load up trash and some files will not empty. These were old back up files.
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IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
Intel Mac :: Can't Seem To Empty The Trash
Apr 11, 2012I can't seem to empty the trash.
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IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
Intel Mac :: My Trash Won't Empty
May 10, 2012I emptied some of my past timemachine backups into my trash, now when i try to empty the trash it won't empty...
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Intel Mac :: Can't Empty Trash On It
Jun 21, 2012Can't empty trash on my Mac - message says it's being used to copy and will empty when finished - unable to empty for 2 weeks?
Info:iMac
OS X :: Secure Empty Trash Regain GB's But Not Empty Trash...?
Jan 13, 2010I've noticed that when I "Secure Empty Trash" though it takes longer, I usually regain a lot of gigabytes back. Currently, as of this post i'm "secure emptying trash" and i've regained about 25GB's which sounds about right considering there was about that much worth of video recordings from my video camera I no longer needed.
In the past when I've just "deleted trash" i've seen different results. If I have say 10GB's in the trash and I just "empty trash" then i'll maybe gain back like a GB or 2. ...if anything.
So, my concern is...say currently with the 25GB amount of trash I have, If I decided to just "empty trash", I obviously would not have gained back all the 25GB's..., perhaps just a few, guessing something like 5GB.
Well, does that mean that those GB's that are emptied in the trash (not securely) are just lost forever?
..Or will I regain those GB's the next time around (say weeks later) I securely empty the trash with whatever happens to be in there (all new stuff in the trash)?
Am I making sense?
Kinda confusing to me cause I don't understand it. But I feel it's vital for me to get this and have the most amount of gigs available on my Mac now that i'm using about 30GB's per week filming stuff and editing it on iMovie.
MacBook Pro :: Can't Use Empty Trash Or Secure Empty Trash?
Feb 16, 2012I can't empty my trash ! i dont know why?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Cannot Fully Empty Trash
Feb 2, 2012I have 2 aliases from an INtel PC that I deleted from a flash drive. After hitting "empty the trash" I hear the trash epty but the 2 files are still there. When I use "secure empty trash" I get the error message:
The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)
The names of these files remain in the trash but I cannot remove them to the desktop to check permissions. THey show zero Mb file sizes.
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iMac
Intel Mac :: Empty The Trash In Iphoto?
Apr 1, 2012how do you empty the trash in iphoto?
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Apr 3, 2012I am trying to empty my trash bin. It starts up, asks if I want to delete all or locked or unlocked and then it stops.
How do I empty the trash securely?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Unable To Empty Trash
Jun 11, 2012For some reason I can no longer "Secure Empty Trash" no matter how many times I click on empty trash - secure empty trash - empty all trash and so on.
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Jun 19, 2012I have a file, myfile.csv, that contains the string qqabc. A (Lion) Spotlight search for the string qqabc fails to return myfile.csv in the results. Turning all checkboxes on in Spotlight preferences didn't help. Reindexing the internal hard drive didn't help either. When I changed the extension to .zzz, the search worked. How can I make Spotlight return myfile.csv in the results? EasyFind works, by the way, but I have a reason for wanting Spotlight to work.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Intel Mac :: Cannot Empty Trash Error -8003
Mar 13, 2012cannot empty trash error -8003
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Empty One (or More) Items From Trash Without Deleting Everything?
Mar 16, 2012How can I empty one (or more) items from trash without deleting everything?
When i right click a single item to delete, the only option i appear to have is to delete everything there. Surely this can't be right?
