Can't empty the TRASH CAN?

Hello

I have been having this issue for a couple weeks now. I can't empty this one file from the trash can. I can actually drag and drop it on to the desktop and it removes itself temporarily. But returns shortly there after. I've included a screen capture of this odd file... Can anyone help?

I've tried a couple of programs to force the trash, but still doesn't work (Ice Clean).

Any ideas? Any one see this type of file before?

Lemme know.
Thanks.
bob

Might I add... Look at the date of the file????

You have a windows install via bootcamp don't you?

Boot into windows and empty the trash.

No. No, Bootcamp/Windows installed on any of my Macs.

external hard drive or flash drive?

I'm a photographer. Is it possible that one of my MANY flash cards or SD cards still hasn't been emptied of its trash?

I have 3 external drives. One is MYBOOK - 500GB that is USB and probably made more for a PC. But works fine.

I do have a few flash drives too. Is there something I can do to check out if they are the issue?

Here's what I've seen. I've seen these kinds of oddball files happen when the files are deleted on a windows machine, but the recycling bin never emptied. Then it becomes difficult to empty the trash on a mac. If this is the case, popping the drive into a windows machine and emptying the trash (or deleting the file) is generally the easiest choice.

Now, you can also do something like this in terminal...


find .Trash/ -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} ';'

This will find any files over 5 days old in .Trash and remove them.

If it keeps coming back, it sounds like something on an attached drive

no luck

Yeah, no luck in Terminal. I just copied and pasted what you wrote down...

Attached a s.s.

still shows in trash? Because it will return with nothing

?

I think it may have something to do with this drive being MS-DOS (Fat32) formatted?

could be something ON that drive. If you eject the drive does the file still show in the trash?

Perhaps the file in question is "being held" by some process...

Here's a free app that can tell you if its being held.

Agathezol’s Support » What’s Open

BINGO.

When I eject that drive, the odd file disappears. When I turn it back on, the file reappears in the trash... What do I do next?

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP SO FAR!

(Error Code - 1407)

OK - so now I have narrowed it down to that single drive.

I 've tried to delete an empty folder on the drive and I keep getting this message. It won't allow me to delete or move a folder to the trash...

(Error Code - 1407)

I resolved the situation by plugging the drive into a windows box, finding the .Trashes folder on the drive and deleting the contents.. then emptying the recycling bin and ejecting it.

In short, I cheated

that sucks

Ok - got to find a PC now... That sucks.

It was never connected to a PC so not sure why it would have these issues?

Drag it back to the flash card from the trash can. Delete it from the flash drive. It should go to wherever file go that are deleted.

I believe it belongs to a MYBOOK 500 GB External drive. Cause it disappears from the trash when you eject that drive.

I tried dragging the file back on to the external drive. But the "can't drag this file" cursor appears when you start dragging it over to the external drive or anywhere for that matter. Very perplexed.

It seems that the folders are locked on the drive also. Can't delete the folders, but you can delete the data within them.

Very odd.