I have a silly problem, but can't figure out what to do.
I bought an external hard drive. I was moving some stuff and accidentally made a copy of what looks like my home direct/internal hard drive.
Deleted the copy and verified I have everything I need on my internal drive.
My time machine backup no longer works because it doesn't have room. Basically, with the file in the trash I have twice the hard disk space taken up.
When I try and empty the trash, it says I can't because I have locked files.
I have so many folders/files, I can't search through them all to unlock them one at a time.
Help says to hold down the option key and select empty trash, that appears to do nothing and I have the same problem.
I restarted my computer and it looked like the trash was empty. Then the files all appeared to show up again.
Any suggestions on how to empty my trash?
I bought an external hard drive. I was moving some stuff and accidentally made a copy of what looks like my home direct/internal hard drive.
Deleted the copy and verified I have everything I need on my internal drive.
My time machine backup no longer works because it doesn't have room. Basically, with the file in the trash I have twice the hard disk space taken up.
When I try and empty the trash, it says I can't because I have locked files.
I have so many folders/files, I can't search through them all to unlock them one at a time.
Help says to hold down the option key and select empty trash, that appears to do nothing and I have the same problem.
I restarted my computer and it looked like the trash was empty. Then the files all appeared to show up again.
Any suggestions on how to empty my trash?