When I click on the Trash Can nothing happens. I was in it recently recovering a deleted document. Don't know where the trash caan is stored so I cannot find it manually. New MAC user. Also, having endless hangs and crashes trying to reorganize my 1.3TB of data stored on Seagate external drives.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
An icon appeared on my wife's Macbook Air desktop and she has no idea where it came from, what it is or how to get rid of it. It has a red and white "pdf" icon with the title Acr790289319801612880.tmp. Nothing happens when it's double clicked, or if she tries to open it under "File" then "Open." I changed the extension to .pdf and tried to open it, but no dice. If she drags it into the trash it makes the sound effect of dropping into the can but remains on the desktop and doesn't show up in the trash.How to get rid of it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got a latest-gen MacBook Pro running on a fully-updated OSX Lion (last update check April 25, 2012).
For some time now, the Trash hasn't seemed to respond: when I click the Trash icon in the Dock, nothing happens (no window opens). When I right-click on it it shows me the normal menu, but when I click "Open", nothing happens; when I click "Empty Trash" nothing happens either (no progress bar even though the Trash must be rather full by now, no sound, the icon remains "full").
Besides, when I close my MacBook Pro with iTunes running (even though no song is playing), when I open the Mac, it sometimes happens that the Finder stops responding. It usually goes back to normal if I quit iTunes.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Trash, Finder
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
OS 10.7.4 Trash does not work properly; when I empty the trash the finder asks for my system password then empties the trash immediately.
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OS 10.7.4, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Despite having several files in the trash, its icon never changes (always shows an empty trash) and the "Empty Trash" option is dimmed (that is, cannot be used). OnyX ws the only solution but it's temporary. What's the fix I should apply to Mac OS X?Also, why is it that every time I want to move a file to trash I must enter my password? It's annoying to say the least.Please help me as I don't want to go through the royal pains of installing everything again, Windows-style. I think Mac OS X should be better than that.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
After updating to 10.7.3 I have noticed that Disk Utility no longer opens. It pops up into the utility bar for a few seconds, bobs up and down a couple of times, then disappears. The next time I click on Disk Utility I don't even get that much of a response. It just doesn't open. No error report, no pop ups saying that it can't be opened - Nada. I can't use disk utility AT ALL anymore. I've tried Zapping my PRAM, but that's about it.
The other thing I've noticed is that any time I put something into the Trash Bin it automatically tells me that it will delete the item - it doesn't sit in the trash bin like it used to until you manually delete it. The only time I can get it to behave normally is when I am using an external drive and I put something from the external drive into the trash bin.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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'm finding myself using spotlight for just about everything. One thing I've found that spotlight does not want to do by default, is open the trash folder.
Tried making a symbolic link of the ~/.Trash folder to the desktop, but spotlight could not find it.
So next I made a script to tell finder to open the trash folder, and saved it in my user directory. I name the script "trash", so now when I type "trash" in spotlight, it finds the script, which in turns tells finder to open the trash folder.
the trash icon in the dock won't open and I can't restore some files that I mistakenly deleted.
View 5 Replies View Relatedyou can rename, move or even trash a file when you still have it opened in preview or textedit.In win, such action will be stopped by the message "can't do that, the file is open somewhere". Would that data going to be kind of homeless or become a "ghost"?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
how to delete trash on macbook with lion
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.3)
I have mac pro having os x lion. I am facing problem of not emtying my trash basket.
I have tried it from finder and also with command key+empty secure icon.
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.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy "Trash" is not working. when i delete any file it doesn't appear in TRASH. Empty Trash option goes disappear. How can i recover my TRASH ?
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MacBoo Pro, iOS 7.1
1. when i first startup my macbook the finder doesn't appear at the very top of the screen and my trash will not open as well.
i think this problem occured when i clicked force quit on finder and now i cannot retrieve finder. i am not a computer person so i don't know all the mac slang. any suggestions?
2. when i open safari it always asks for a password and anytime i search something it asks for the password again how do i turn this off?
I just got my new macbook pro today , and when I plugged in my toshiba portable external HDD, the computer put every (or what appears to be every) file in the trash bin. Strangely, the files are still on the HDD and the files disappear when I eject it. I reconnected the hard drive multiple times and the problem still persists. I cannot find one logical explanation as to why this is happening.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.9ghz, 128gb SSD, 8gb RAM
how do i recover files from trash after trash is emptied?'
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I stop Lion from automatically deleteing item I move to the Trash?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3), Trash - Auto Deleteing?
My iMac 27" Lion hangs up emptying trash. This happened a few days ago and tech support helped unlock it, but I forget the keys they told me to press when I restarted it, to start it in a safe mode. Control or option then something else.
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Mac OS X, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
I'm running 10.7.3. When I want to drag something to the Trash, or delete it I get a pop-up box saying than Finder wants to make changes and I must give my password.Once I have done this the item disappears.How can I change this back to normal?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I tried to trash one of the Time Machine backups from an external drive, but now it's stuck in the Trash and I cannot get rid of it. The "Secure Empty Trash" option doesn't do it.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), backup folder
Every time I try to delete my trash can (secure or not) it never empties the contents of teh trash..
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
cannot clear my trash
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
i have alot of trash that is taking up space and it is slowing down my mac. everytime i try to empty my trash it asks me to securely empty the trash and i do. the window pops up and looks as if it starts but then it disappears.
Info:iMac, OS X lion
Since updating to 10.7.4, I am unable to put anything in the trash without being prompted for the administrator password. This happens while signed in as administrator. How do I stop this needless step? It really slows down normal workflow.
Info:iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I just upgraded to Lion 10.7.4 and am having troubles with emptying the Trash. The dialog box opens and shows the number of items to be deleted, and the blue candy cane starts. Nothing happens - no progress bar appears. If I click on the X to stop the process, it says "Stopping" but again nothing happens. I've left it overnight and nothing changes. Restarting the machine sometimes works, but often I can't restart because "Another process in in use". Only by Force Quitting the FInder will it restart.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCleaned up my MacBook Pro yesterday, put a lot of files in the bin. After (ish) 400 delted files the "process bar" of how much as been deleted did not move anymore. I could not abort the emptying so I had to restart the Finder. The 400 files were gone out of the bin but those files which are now still in there can simply not be deleted. Every time I try to klick "empty trash" my computer gets stuck at "preparying to emtpy trash"
I have loged out, restarted and also tried "secure empty trash" ..... all of it did not work.Every time I want to cancel the emptying it does not react and I have to restart the Finder. Yesterday the Finder even didnt restart once so I had to restart the entire system.Is there anything I can still do? Pretty unhappy witht he situation and hope all these bugs which were in the Lion update will get fixed with Mountain Lion!
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), MB Pro mid 2009, 2.53Ghz, 4GB DDR3
