Emptying Trash

vank66 · vank66 #1 (**permalink**)

07-24-2011, 12:13 PM

When I click on empty trash, a pop up counts items to empty, but thats all it does, trash doesn't empty. How can I get the trash emptied? Thanks for any input. I just installed Lion OS, could that be a problem??

jram · jram #2 (**permalink**)

07-24-2011, 01:09 PM

This works, copy and paste this in terminal

rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

vank66 · vank66 #3 (**permalink**)

07-24-2011, 01:34 PM

Another suggestion of holding the option key down when selecting empty trash worked too. Thanks for input. Van

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vank66 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 04, 2007 Location: Long Beach, CA. Posts: 314 Mac Specs: iMac 21" 2.4G 320G HD OS Snow Leopard. Win7 on Dell PC Inspiron i5 8g Ram 1TB HD	07-24-2011, 12:13 PM When I click on empty trash, a pop up counts items to empty, but thats all it does, trash doesn't empty. How can I get the trash emptied? Thanks for any input. I just installed Lion OS, could that be a problem??
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jram #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 08, 2005 Posts: 469	07-24-2011, 01:09 PM This works, copy and paste this in terminal rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
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