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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JimInSD" data-source="post: 1603446" data-attributes="member: 313239">Yosemite beta2: Cannot delete folders & files in the Trash sinc they are in use.Thanks for the suggestion.  I thought that holding the Option key down when selecting Empty Trash did the secure delete.  I was wrong.  I chose Secure Empty Trash and off it went...for nearly 2 hours.  Now, I have a really fast Intel i7 processor but this was painfully slow.  I stopped watching after a while but at one point there were over 6,000 files waiting to be deleted.  I had investigated more of the sub folders and found one folder with 234 aliases in it.  I have no idea where these files and folders came from.  I have no idea what sent them to the trash.  I have no idea why they were all busy.  I have no idea why I, as an admin, couldn't delete them.  But they are gone.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />  Thanks.Question answered and problem solved but no understanding why it happened.  <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Undecided.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":\" title="Undecided    :\" data-shortname=":\" /></blockquote>