Intel Mac :: Can't Empty The Trash, It Says Have Locked Items
May 11, 2012can't empty the trash, It says have locked items
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MacBook Pro :: Can't Empty The Locked Items From Trash
May 4, 2012why can't I empty the locked items from my trash?
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MacBook Pro, 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?
MacBook Pro :: Cannot Empty Recycle Bin - Some Items Locked
Apr 18, 2012When I try to empty my recycle bin it tells me that there are some locked items, so I select the option to empty all items. It starts emptying it but then it stops without telling me what the issue is. I have about 1,000 items, what can I do?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: Locked File - Empty Trash
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 :: Secure Empty Trash Locked Up
Apr 5, 2010Under my finder list on the top of my IMac, I used to be able to click empty trash. Now its turned into secure empty trash. Secure empty trash always locks up and I have to relaunch finder, search for empty trash in help and use it that way. Does anyone know how to get the empty trash option back under my finder list?
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Jun 23, 2008I need some guidance getting the items I have on my computer permanently deleted from the trash. When I go to delete them I get the following message below and I can't delete anything. What do I need to do?
Message Received:
This operation can not be completed because the item is locked
wmphelp.htm
wmpicon.gif
windowshade.gif
whatsnew.htm
volume.gif
viewinginfo.htm
upgradingwmp.htm
And the list just goes on .......
OS X :: Cannot Empty Trash - 720 Locked Files In Folder
Mar 23, 2009I went through and deleted a lot of stuff then when I was emptying the trash it said that there was a locked file so I found out were it was pulled it out and then got rid of everything else there are about 720 locked files in the folder then I tried to find a quicker way to delete it then I found out how to unlock them so I went to pull them out but it just made a copy of it so now and I put it back in the trash not thinking about how that just adds on to the files so how can I get them out or make it so I can press continue just once for them all to go away.
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Mar 24, 2012I cannot delete some locked items from trash ... get the message "The operation cannot be completed because the file is locked"
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Emptying Trash With Locked Items?
Apr 20, 2012How do I empty trash with locked items in trash folder?
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Jun 22, 2014How do I remove locked items from trash? I want to delete unneeded (duplicate) backup files that were on an external disk. I have not succeeded using empty trash or secure empty trash. I am the administrator. Mac OS X (10.9.3) Mavericks.
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Sep 23, 2009Is it possible to select certain items to empty from the trash? Or do I have to empty the whole can. My trash can is getting up there in size but I really don't want to delete all of the items.
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May 28, 2012I was doing a major cleanup with an external Seagate USB HDD due to low free disk spaces. It has two partitions/drives: FAT32 (using it for on other non-Apple machines like Windows 2000 SP4) and HFS [Time Machine only]). I threw about 30,000 items (copied from an old Windows 2000 SP4 machine's HDD with NTFS back a few years ago) from FAT32 partition/drive into the trash can. However, I am having problems emptying it.
Most of them were emptied, but some were left behind.This four years old MacBook Pro's Mac OS X 10.5.8's Trash dialog boxes said "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items." and "Emptying the Trash cannot be completed because "<filename>" is locked. To empty everything in the Trash, including locked items, press the Options key while selecting Empty Trash".
[URL] for the screen shots/captures of the error messages.I tried holding Option key and emptying trash, but that didn't work. I used Finder to look at the files, and they had locked status. So I unlocked them which worked, but I can't delete the empty folders/directories, and these don't have locked. What's going on and how do I empty the trash?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 Ghz; A1260 model; 15" size.
MacBook Pro :: Delete Items In The Trash Bin When They Don't Empty
Mar 18, 2012I downloaded font files and tried to delete them. I tried to empty trash but the items still appear. I tried holding down the optioin key while emptying the trash and the items are still there. How can I empty the trash bin?
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Mac Book Pro
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Can't Empty Trash Can Containing Items From External Drive
Apr 24, 2012I did a disk repair and verify disk on my external hard drive. When they were done, it created a folder called "lost+found". I deleted it and it went to the trash. Now I can't delete it. I tried the option key, using terminal and secure empty. None worked. When I unplug the external drive, the trash is empty. I connected to another mac and it appeared in the trash there and I still can't delete it. I also tired using disk utility to delete free space and that didn't work. I called apple and they stated to format the drive but I don't have enough storage anywhere else to copy the data.
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: Unable To Empty Items From Trash / Not Deleting Files Even After Restart
Aug 12, 2010Running 10.6.4 on a 27" iMac 3.06 GHz C2D. I was irritated by sometimes not being able to empty items from my trash(message that file was in use when it wasn't). I found on lancelhoff.com a command for terminal(cd ~/.Trash && sudo rm -rf ) followed by directory/filename which allowed these pesky files to be deleted which worked great. I was showing my manager the trick I'd found and while doing so, it stopped deleting the files.
Now when I put items in the trash I get a message 'Are you sure you want to delete "xxxx.yyy"? This item will be deleted immediately. You can't undo this action" instead of putting it in the trash. The files I was trying to delete when I was doing my doomed demo will not delete even after a restart. I did a fix permissions on my drive with Disk Utility which was no help in this regard.
OS X :: Can't Delete Items From Trash "Locked" Option Key Not Working
Mar 13, 2010when i try to delete items from my trash bin i get the following message even when i hold down the option key (upon which the eye symbol turns into a play button) and try to empty the trash like it instructs me to do it gives me the same error message.
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Mar 28, 2012I thought if you hold down option and control or option and command, and go to empty trash these stubborn items that say they are still in use, when they are not, will go away. Shutting down and restarting MBP won't make them go away either.
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Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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?
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)
