I was at the genius bar today because my mac was really sluggish. We discovered after lots of exploration that my trash appeared to be performing exactly correctly but in fact there were 900 files in there that had never actually been deleted. This created a disconnect between the trash and the system so it was slowing performance significantly.
Info:macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Iphone 2G
When I empty the trash in Lion it takes forever. There are 15000 -20000 files in the trash. They look to be coming from the Time Machine backups. Everytime I clean them out they come back.
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IMac 27', Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I empty trash with locked items in trash folder?
View 1 Replies View RelatedTrash won't empty. I have had dropbox application and removed it, and now want to remove the dropbox folder I tried resetting the PRAM as it was expressed in one of the topics but it didn't work the files are stuck in the trash and when I go to empty my trash it just gets me emptying and doesn't want to move further than that.
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MacBook Pro
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)
After emptying the trash, I've noticed that Lion does not see the additional free space until after doing a reboot, and even after that it takes a long time for it to find all the new free space. Anybody know what's wrong with the trash system?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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 RelatedI have a little issue with the trash, when ever I trash something it automatically empty the trash but before it was empty completely it display a massage.
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 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
View 12 Replies View Relatedthe emptying of trash is taking for ever since OSX 10.6.x anyone has a fix for this issue?
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?
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 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.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThe thread title pretty much lays it out right there. I tried the sudo kill all Dock but it didn't work.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI 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 been cleaning up some portable hard drives (Western Digital 160 gig). After trashing some files, when I go to empty the trash, I get a message that I "do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items" and it does not delete the files. I have tried holding the option key down and have tried using secure trash..in both cases I get the same message.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi used "chflags -R nouchg " in terminal but all i get is some message and permision denied... how i solve this coz the trash can seems empty when i remove the external drive once i connect it the trash can is full again..
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I was backing up my music and pictures on my external hard drive and erased the old copy. When I tried to empty my trash after that I could not remove the files because I did not have sufficient privileges. Using the rm -rf code I was able to remove everything except my itunes library. Anyone have any suggestions how to get my itunes library out of my trash? It only shows up when the external drive is plugged in.
View 2 Replies View Relatedone file i downloaded was cyberduck for ssh with iphone but got the an older one and all it does is crash, trash bin'd it and keep getting that message but nothing shows in activity monitor... this happens with so many things i trash that when I search they are not in use?
View 2 Replies View RelatedNot too long ago I looked through the list of things I had put in the Trash. Some how I over looked a document I should have removed from the Trash and Empetyed Trash. There is some way to locate what has been empteyed from the Trash and get it onto the Desktop. How do I do that?
I have not Secured Empty Trash... so my document should still be able to be found and removed from the Emptey Trash.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
I have deleted some Time Machine backups.backupdb folders from my backup volume into my trash and now I can't empty the trash. The volume with the backups.backupdb data was getting full and I wanted to give it more space. Now when I attempt to empty the trash on my iMac, I get the error code -8003. I have searched online and can't find a solution. Does anyone one know how I can empty my trash?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
I cannot delete all the trash from my mac. I get the message "Cannot delete because item cache.db is in use". All but 3 remaining folders were deleted. These won't go away.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCopied files to an external hard drive and then deleted them from mac HD and empty the trash. I then went into disk utility and made a second petition for external hard drive and it deleted all the files on the external hard drive. Is there a way to recover the files that were on the extra the hard drive or from the Mac hard drive?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have tried to empy the trash and suddenly I get an error message 8003 that prevents it from emptying. Any one seen this before?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
