Intel Mac :: Why Won't TRASH Empty Securely And Completely
Jun 12, 2012
I have tried several times to dump my trash. The message comes up to empty all or just unlocked items. I select the all option and it begins to empty the trash bin. But soon after starting, the trash -------- bar showing how many trash items have been emptied shuts down. When I go back to check the trash bin, there is still a lot of trash that hasn't been dumped. How do I fix my trash bin so it empties everything out?
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iMac, iPhone OS 1.x
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Apr 3, 2012
I 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)
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Dec 27, 2008
I really have no idea what so ever. i just know that secure empty trash takes longer
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May 16, 2012
I can't empty my trash securely - it just grinds to a halt
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Sep 18, 2009
Today I tried to "empty the trash securely". There were 73 items. After 5-8 minutes I selected "stop" because the Fan was at 5400 and the Temp was 78 degree C. This is the first time I have heard the Fan. Also, it seemed as though it was stuck trying to empty. That is when I noticed the temp/fan issue.
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Aug 7, 2009
How can I get my iMac to completely empty my trash? My delete secure trash always starts at 9,500 or more items to delete. Then the message: "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "501" could not be read or written. (Error code-36)" always comes on when there are still 9,474 items left. I click continue and one more item is deleted down to 9,473, then it quits deleting. The files left in the trash are like this example: QHAE.la Dec 31,1903, 6:00PM Zero KB Alias. There are 38 of them and the date, time, size and kind are all the same.
Mac OS X Version 10.5.7
Model Name:iMac
Model Identifier:iMac5,1
Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:1
Total Number Of Cores:2
L2 Cache:4 MB
Memory:2 GB
Bus Speed:667 MHz
Boot ROM Version:IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version (system):1.9f4
Serial Number (system):xxxxxxxxxxx
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Aug 18, 2009
"Empty Trash" sound is gone!
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Mar 20, 2012
I have taken everything out of the trash and then returned items in small groups for successful emptying. That identified the problem which seems to be one iMovie 08 clip that causes the Secure Empty Trash to freeze. The progress bar shows that it contains 3 items which drops to 2 almost instantly. Then it freezes and just stays there (45 minutes or longer) until I select Force Quit. Clicking on the Stop Emptying Trash has no effect whatever.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 31, 2009
I 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?
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Feb 23, 2012
Trash 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)
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Mar 19, 2012
I 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, 2012
Cleaning 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)
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Apr 11, 2012
I can't seem to empty the trash.
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IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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May 10, 2012
I 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)
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Jun 21, 2012
Can'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
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Jan 13, 2010
I'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.
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Feb 16, 2012
I 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)
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Feb 2, 2012
I 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
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Apr 1, 2012
how do you empty the trash in iphoto?
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Jun 11, 2012
For 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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Mar 13, 2012
cannot empty trash error -8003
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 16, 2012
How 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?
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Mar 17, 2012
They have been there for ages now and they were backupfiles from my external Western Digital FireWire 800 HD. They arent taking up much space at all as you can see but it annoys me that I can't delete them.
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iMac 2.66, Mac OS X (10.5.7)
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Apr 2, 2012
I can't empty trash and somehow address book app is in there. I have moved it from the trash onto the desktop ok but the app also stays in the trash as do all the other items. Some of the items were restored to original place and disappeared from trash but there is still a large quantity that won't budge.
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iMac
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May 10, 2012
I 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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May 11, 2012
can't empty the trash, It says have locked items
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Apr 4, 2012
I've been trying to empty files in trash, and everytime I do, it brings up a new finder window and says that it's preparing to move to trash, but it's already in trash. When I try to take it out of trash it says that it's copying the file to my desktop.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
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Apr 7, 2012
I am trying to empty my trash and I keep getting the error code -8003 on a popup window with the option to stop or continue. Even when selecting continue in does no continue. Is there a way around this or another way to erase the trash.
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iMac
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May 3, 2012
Cannot empty trash getting error code -8003.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 4, 2012
I just want to know how to empty my trash because I keep getting this message saying " The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occured (error code-8003) I tried looking this up and couldn't find any refference regarding it.
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iMac (17-inch Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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