MacBook Pro :: How To Delete A Folder Directly In External HDD Without Moving To Trash

Jun 28, 2014

How do I delete a folder directly in an external HDD (connected to Mac Book Pro), without moving to Trash?

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MacBook Pro :: Moving Folder Back To IPhoto From Trash?

Apr 28, 2012

I accidentally sent a folder of photos to the Trash. This folder was my backed up photos from my pc. I am terrified that I will lose this and I have no idea how to move this whole folder to iphoto.

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MacBook Pro

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Jun 23, 2014

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OS X :: Cannot Delete Folder From Trash

Mar 9, 2009

I have tried everything and I cannot delete this folder from my trash. It's an empty folder because everything inside it is already deleted. I get this message when I try to empty trash.

"The operation cannot be completed because the item "xxx" is in use."

I have tried going into Terminal and typing "sudo rm -rf" etc etc. Get the message "directory not empty".

Tried secure empty trash.

Tried using Cocktail.

Tried using Permanent Eraser.

Tried holding down "option" and emptying.

Tried logging out, logging in then emptying. Tried restarting and emptying.

Nothing seems to work. I've looked through every thread on every forum I could find on google. I can move the folder back to my desktop. I can rename it. It's not locked or anything. Also, I tried emptying it in safe mode, but I can't seem to start up on safe mode!!! I turn off the computer, turn it on, hold down shift after I hear the startup noise, release shift when the grey apple logo comes up, and then it just shuts down on me. I can't boot up on safe mode!! It's so weird!

I'm gonna try repairing disk permissions, but before I do.

I'm on a PowerBook G4. Running Version 10.4.11. Everything is up to date.

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OS X :: Can't Delete Windows XP Folder From Trash

Nov 1, 2009

So, while cleaning up my macbook pro from old files, I mistakenly get into the NO NAME partition that appears in the OS X partition, but which holds some kind of Windows XP directories. I don't know how I managed to do so, but I somehow deleted a folder under NO NAME/Documents and Settings/[user name] and all the files in that directory.

Not much harm was done, since it seems as though the folder was merely duplicated into the trash and still remains in its original directory in NO NAME. The problem is that every time I try to delete it from the trash it says I don't have permissions. It's only folders and they're all unlocked and I am logged on as admin. I've tried dragging the folder out of the trash but it merely duplicates it (although I have no issues deleting the duplicate). So I have folders that have no use being in or outside the trash, which are proving to be very difficult to delete. I tried verifying my disk fwith Disk Utility, but it resulted ok.

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Intel Mac :: Cannot Delete Any Of Messages To The Trash Folder

Feb 28, 2012

When I try to delete my email messages a pop down box shows up on the screen telling me that  "The message (whatever one it may be) could not be moved to the mailbox 'Deleted message-mail.comcast.net does not allow messages to be moved to it. 

Is it possible for me to have deleted the original trash box from the left hand column  of the mail page?And that is why these email message cannot be delelted?

I have been given all kinds of sites to go to in hopes of correcting this problem but  none of them has been the one that works to correct  it for me  I have over 45,000 messages that I need to get rid of and I just can't figure out how to get them to move to the trash file or folder  and it doesn't work.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

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OS X Yosemite :: How To Speed Up Secure Delete Of Trash Folder

Dec 4, 2014

I have a MacBook Air with 256 GB of SSD and am running very close to the limit of available memory. To recover additional memory I issued an empty trash command while holding down the options key. The process has been underway for a few hours now. 

There are over 1,238,000 items to be deleted. Items are being deleted at the rate of about one every five seconds. At that rate it is going to take forever for the process to finish.  

Is there any way to speed up the process? Or an alternative the empty trash command? 

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MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

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OS X Mavericks :: Mail - Difference In Delete And Trash Folder?

Sep 11, 2014

I don't know which folder to use clearing out old messages, spam, junk and other detrious I might want to recover in the future and which folder for highly sensitive or personal  in formation I want to keep confidential.

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kMail, Mac OS 9.0.x

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Intel Mac :: When Delete A Folder Requires A Password And It Doesn't Go In The Trash

May 14, 2012

I made a clean install of lion as i had a little bit of a problems after few years i was uning my iMac.. All of the issues were gone but know i got a new problem with the trash ..  

Every time i delete something (i.e: a folder that i dont need any more) i requires a password.. Then instead of that folder to appear in the Trash (as it should be), it is automatically gone and do not appear in the trash! what is this but i am suspicious that is the password protection thing that is responsible for that!

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Nov 13, 2007

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Applications :: Moving IMovie Folder To External Drive?

Oct 29, 2010

I've been using my internal drive for iMovie files, but have been doing a lot more with the program recently and the folder has gotten quite large. I'd like to move it to my main external drive (a Drobo). Anybody know if there's a way to do this correctly, from within the iMovie program, to insure that it knows where all the files are? (rather than just moving the folder manually etc.) Is there a setting preferences for example, where it tells it where to store the files etc?

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OS X :: Have 160.5MB On My HD - Moving Home Folder To My External Hard Drives?

Dec 28, 2008

I have 160.5MB on my HD, an I have done everything I know how to do to free it up but still nothing!I'm wondering, can I move the home folders to my external hardrives?

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MacBook Pro :: Delete Individual Items From Trash Without Emptying Entire Trash?

Jun 26, 2014

How do you delete individual items from Trash without emptying entire Trash? If I highlight one item in Trash, the only option is the Empty button. I'm afraid it will empty the whole thing. I don't want to do that.

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OS X Technologies :: Email From Certain Senders Goes Directly To Trash Before Inbox?

May 1, 2012

email from certain senders goes directly to trash before inbox; this is consistent for wife's email (which is definietly a problem)

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Mac Pro :: Can't Delete A Windows System Folder Off My Mac-connected External HDD

Mar 2, 2010

So I have an external HDD formatted in NTFS that I used for all my DVD backups items connected to my Mac (running Mac OS X 10.5.8). In any event, I was re-installing windows on my Laptop (which is a PC) and put the old copy of windows on the external drive. Well, I don't need it anymore and was trying to delete it but it won't delete. I have tried everything short of initializing the drive which I want to avoid so I dont lose all my DVD backups. It's in the trash but it just won't empty.

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Applications :: Can No Longer Drag Files From OS X Itunes Library Directly To Trash

Feb 13, 2010

up until a few days ago...maybe after 9.0.3 update...on my macbook pro under snow leopard, im certain i could drag files from itunes library or a playlist into the trash.

if i drug the file from the library to the trash, you would here the trash can "eating sound" and it would be gone from the library (one step). if it was from a playlist, it would delete that file from the playlist but not from the library as expected. now, i cant do either. now i have to right click and delete the file/s and then click move to trash.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Empty Trash May Not Delete Folders In Trash If Using Network Home Directory

Apr 23, 2012

I have two folders in my trash which I cannot empty. No matter how many times I try these folders will not go away. I have open the "info" link and marked them read and write without success.

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iMac

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MacBook :: IPhone 4S Photos Directly To External Drive

Jun 7, 2012

Does anyone know how to transfer iPhone 4S photos directly to a WD external hard drive without the need to first transfer to iPhoto?

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iPhone 4S

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Aug 11, 2010

I'd like to move the "apps" folder for itunes out of the main hard drive, and into an external. Can I do that???!

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MacBook Pro :: External Storage - Work Directly On Large Animation Projects

May 31, 2010

I've had a look on these forums and had a look on the web but I'm still confused by what I need to get to meet my external storage needs. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. Background I'm going back to university next year to study animation so I've just ordered a Macbook Pro and I will be selling my '08 Mac Pro fairly soon to pay for it. I'm doing this because I need to be able to work from where ever. I know if I need to do any massive renders University has equipment I can use. What I am looking for Animation obviously takes up a lot of Hard Disk space so I need someway of storing, accessing and backing up all of my work that wont fit on my laptop. This is a basic summary of what I need it to do.

- Store old projects (that can be 100's of Gb)
- Easily backup MBP harddrive (500Gb) & old projects on other drives.
- Work directly on it on large animation projects.
- Be expandable in the future.
- Fairly easy to set up and use.
- Cheap is good but I'm happy to pay more if the benefits are obvious.
- Any extra bonuses are good (like working wirelessly, etc) but only if it's not loads extra.

I don't know if all these things are possible but be very grateful for any help regardless.

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Applications :: How To Delete Itunes Tracks Directly From Playlists And The Library

Jul 22, 2010

If I'm playing some music from a playlist, and I decide I want to delete it from my entire collection, I can't don't it easily. Deleting it right from the playlist doesn't remove it from my library. I have to go hunt it down in the main "Music" folder which is a pain in the ass, especially with multiple tracks. Is there some way, when looking at a track in a playlist, that I can delete it from my entire library and put it in the Trash?

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ITunes :: Ban Delete Songs Directly From IPhone (child User)?

Jun 23, 2012

I want to copy some educational audiobooks and songs for my child, but don't want he can delete it directly from iphone with simple whisk.I can't do it through parent control, alternatively players also all works with iPhone library, so if you delete something, it'll vanish everywhere in others iPhone player apps.

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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

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MacBook Pro :: Moving Files To A New Folder?

Feb 5, 2012

I was wondering how come I can't move my videos to a new folder? For example in my 'Downloads' I have a few episodes of The Office and I can't move them altogether into a new folder...?

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MacBookPro

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Applications :: Adding Songs Directly To ITunes Music Folder?

May 31, 2009

I was under the impression that you could just put new songs right into this folder and they would show up in iTunes. I added a bunch of music files (correct format of course) to this folder and they don't show up. I still have to use "Add to library" and browse to the actual folder and song for it to show up. What gives?

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IMac :: Can't Delete Trash / Saying Don't Have Permission To Delete

Mar 6, 2009

I dual boot my iMac using Boot Camp and I'm having problems deleting a bunch of files in my Trash. A short history. I purchased a OWC external hard drive case and I've been going through my old hard drives which originally were used in my Windows XP computer. The drives were contaminated with Windows viruses and so I installed the drives one by one in the OWC case and proceeded to delete files and programs which I didn't need in each drive while in OS X and keeping the files I wanted to save in each respective drive. Now what I'm faced with is a Trash bin filled with Windows XP software (including Windows XP itself) which I cannot delete because OS X says I don't have permission to delete those files.

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MacBook Pro :: Moving Applications Folder To Dock?

Apr 8, 2012

For some reason, my applications folder disappeared from the dock.  I've tried to drag it back, next to the trash, but it won't settle there.

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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

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MacBook :: Delete Hide Folder From Usb, It Says "The Folder Can't Be Moved Into Sub-folder"?

Mar 16, 2012

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Applications :: Encoding Error Shows - Tried Saving As A Video TS Folder Rather Than Directly

Nov 22, 2010

I'm attempting to burn an .avi file to DVD using iDVD. I've tried every tip on the web including, reducing the encoding quality & reducing the burn speed and de-install and re-install iDVD, but still manage to get the same message 'Encoding Video - There was an error during movie encoding' after having waited an hour for it to encode.I'm using iDVD '08 Vir.7.0.1 on a MacBook (10.5.8) with over 20GB of free space and 1GB of memory.The .avi file is 500mb in size.I've tried saving as a Video_TS folder rather than directly to a DVD, but still get the same error.

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MacBook Air :: Cannot Delete Items From Trash

Mar 23, 2012

I have around 1650 items in my trash bin, tried to secure erase, but after deleting the first ones it stopped and 16305 are still in the bin.

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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Delete Trash On Macbook

Jun 8, 2012

how to delete trash on macbook with lion

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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.3)

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