Mac Mini :: Trash Does Not Empty

Feb 23, 2012

Have a Mini with OSX Lion ( latest Upgrades) cannot get the trash to empty. I thought it might be a conflict with Time Machine but that doesn't seem to be the case.I have like 15K items in there and have tried to delete them in groups to no avail.

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Mac mini

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I have a Mac Mini Core Solo that I upgrade to a Core Duo and now I'm having a interesting issue wtih 10.6.2. When I try to empty trash it just seems to get stuck on preparing to empty trash and same thing when I try coping files out of a .dmg that has been mounted. If I do it via terminal it works fine, but doing it via the UI always locks up my finder. Thinking about doing a fresh install, since I did the upgrade from 10.5, thinking about just doing a fresh install of 10.6.2?

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Jan 13, 2010

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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.

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Am I making sense?

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