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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I know normally if you want to trash something, all you have to do is press "⌘ + Delete". To empty trash you press "Option + ⌘ + Delete" But now when I press "⌘ + Delete" it display the massage as you see below.
How do I fixed it or have it go back to normal state?
When I direct the G5 Leopard to "empty trash" I get a window saying "preparing to empty trash" and a counter that zooms upward, but no trash emptying. I ask myself "how difficult can this be?" But I guess the answer is 'too difficult for me."
What the heck am I doing wrong?
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)
I 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
I 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)
I cannot delete the trash on my MacBook. It is terrible. I have over 19,000 items in my trash and I need to get them off my computer fast!
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I've been organizing some files on my external hard drive and after I had all the files where I wanted, I had to delete all the individual folders that they were in. They are all aliases which is really weird and I have no idea what happened. When I try to empty trash nothing happens, no pop up or anything tell me what's wrong. When I tried to secure empty trash I get this
View 2 Replies View RelatedI 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 .......
I am having real difficulty deleting files on my macbook pro. Although there definitely aren't over 8000 files in my trash everytime I try to delete it seems to think there is... Any idea of how to rectify this?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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)
Trying to empty trash and it is not working. I keep getting the following message "There are some locked items in the Trash. Do you want to remove all the items, including the locked ones, or just the unlocked items?
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have facing this problem from past few days..My trash won't empty.I tried to holding down option key and then empty the trash, but it didn't work.I tried "trash it" but it also did not work.I repaired disk from disk utility pressing CMD+R at boot time ; it also did not work..I got Message at first saying "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in can't be read or written. (Error code -36)"Then I pressed continue and nothing happened now when I empty the Trash it simply dont empty it.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have no idea where the right place to post this is because I am basically clueless about all computer stuff.
I just purchased a second hand Macbook from last December. It is running OS10.5.8. I am trying to get my new files set up/get rid of some of the applications left by the last owner. However, the computer is not allowing me to delete files.
I send them to the trash and that works. But then I press "Empty Trash" or "Securely Empty Trash", it makes the 'emptying' sound, closes the window but doesn't actually delete anything.
I really need to delete these files in order to make space for new ones and to keep my sanity (I hate messy computers).
What should I do? I tried pressing option/alt while emptying because someone told me that would help, but it doesn't seem to have done anything...
Twice recently, when I empty the Trash on my mid-2010 MacBook Pro with OS X Lion (current update), the Trash empties but the CPU goes to 100% utilization, the fans come on high, the CPU temperature as measured by an app exceeds 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and of course any commands produce a long beachball. The computer will only shut down by force via the power button.
Is it harmful for the CPU to max-out like this?The power-on self-test on startup reported "passed" so there doesn't appear to be any damage but I am not sure how much these tests really test. The Apple Hardware Test will not run in Lion. I ran one with my old Snow Leopard startup disk and it reported pass but recorded the test date as in the year 4012.
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
Sometimes items it put in the trash don't appear in the trash, although they are there. This often happens when I manually delete podcasts from iTunes, or drag an item such as a PDF from my downloads folder to the trash. The dock icon remains in it's "empty" state and bring up the trash finder window also shows that it is empty. If I restart my MacBook however, the items appear in the trash and are able to be deleted.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have a little annoying problem with a file in the trash that just doesn't disappear tried to secure empty trash, tried with onyx it just stays there repaired permission tried everything but this file just stays there
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a macBook Pro running Snow leopard. My problem is that the trash will not empty. I keep getting a message stating that there are some locked items in the trash and it asks if I want everything removed, the locked items only or the unlocked ones. No matter which I choose the result is the same, that is, the window opens showing that it has started to empty then it promptly closes.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have this folder in my trash which i am damn sure is not in use. Every time i try to empty trash it says item is in use.
how to resolve this issue?
I have over 1,500 files in my Trash and every time I try to empty it, Snow Leopard crashes.
Any suggestions? i.e. different program to empty trash or something?
I have about 22GB or about 23,500 items to be emptied from the trash. Most of items are just jpg images. I just started to commence emptying and it is taking approximate 1sec to delete one item. So by calculation, it will take 6.5 hrs. !
At same time, I'm just doing my normal spread sheet work.
Is there anything wrong?
I have been using Time Machine to backup my MacBook Pro, and today, my handy little Passport drive ran out of space so I dragged my folder, from my external image, to my Trash. When I emptied it, I got an error message (Code -8003) seen here: It is around 350 GBs or so, and I have deleted the folder once before, without any issues. What am I doing wrong and how can I empty the trash here? I also browsed through Console, but with my basic knowledge of it, didn't see any messages pertaining to it.
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