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Lots of data in "/.Trashes"?

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ninecows

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Apr 9, 2012
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The trash-can on my desktop is empty, but when I run this:

Code: 
sudo du -chxd 1 /

I get this response:

Code: 
3,4M	/.DocumentRevisions-V100
896K	/.fseventsd
 63M	/.Spotlight-V100
 [B]21G	/.Trashes[/B]
  0B	/.vol
10,0G	/Applications
2,6M	/bin
  0B	/cores
5,0K	/dev
1,0K	/home
4,2G	/Library
1,0K	/net
  0B	/Network
4,6G	/private
1,1M	/sbin
4,6G	/System
 16M	/Users
481M	/usr
 44K	/Volumes
 45G	/
 45G	total

What puzzles me is the 21G in /.Trashes... How do I remove those? That's about 1/3 of my total diskspace!
 
ninecows said:
The trash-can on my desktop is empty, but when I run this:
What puzzles me is the 21G in /.Trashes... How do I remove those? That's about 1/3 of my total diskspace!
Click to expand...

That's odd....I get
Code: 
 25M	/.DocumentRevisions-V100
1.6M	/.fseventsd
145M	/.Spotlight-V100
  0B	/.Trashes
  0B	/.vol
4.3G	/Applications
2.3M	/bin
  0B	/cores
4.5K	/dev
1.0K	/home
2.5G	/Library
1.0K	/net
  0B	/Network
2.6G	/private
984K	/sbin
4.6G	/System
 18G	/Users
500M	/usr
4.0K	/Volumes
 33G	/
 33G	total

Unfortunately I have no idea how to clear that space, I would try a restart to see if it clears it up.
 
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