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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1189905" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>What Terminal command did you use? You likely didn't tell it to delete recursively. The command you want is as follows:[code]rm -rf ~/.Trash/*[/code]The -r argument will remove files recursively (delete a file within a folder, within a folder...) and the -f argument will remove the files without prompting (handy if you have a lot of files to delete and you don't need to ensure that only certain ones get deleted).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1189905, member: 71075"] What Terminal command did you use? You likely didn't tell it to delete recursively. The command you want is as follows:[code]rm -rf ~/.Trash/*[/code]The -r argument will remove files recursively (delete a file within a folder, within a folder...) and the -f argument will remove the files without prompting (handy if you have a lot of files to delete and you don't need to ensure that only certain ones get deleted). [/QUOTE]
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