natgab Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Having problems emptying my trash can after delete about 12GB of junk I had copied from my brother Windows PC hard drive. I was backing up his data so I could completely wipe his PC. After I finished copying back his data to his computer, I just went and dragged the entire HD image to the trash (oops). I have delete large video files and multiple DVD images before in my Mac, but for some reason the trash did not empty this time. I tried Secure empty trash which usually takes care of stubborn deletes. And even after a reboot it still shows I have my trash can filled. I also tried: rm -rf ~/.Trash/* It is not emptying the trash can. Both with and without the "sudo". Any ideas on what to do? I recently upgraded the 10.7.5 supplemental without problems. TIA Currently running OS X 10.7.5 / OS X 10.6.8 / Ubuntu Studio 12.04 / Windows XP Boots to Lion with Chamaleon, 3 internal HD (OSs) & 1 external HD (data) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Gotta empty it from Windows lucky it's not kernel panicing when you try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natgab Posted October 22, 2012 Author Share Posted October 22, 2012 Thanks. Booting to window solved the problem. If I ran OS X without the external connected, the trash was empty, it only was full (and full) with the external HD plugged in. Ran Maintenace & Onyx afterwards to make sure all the crud was wiped away in OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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