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Cannot empty the trash?
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Can the following help: You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash and Solving Trash Problems
This, in conjunction with the mystery garbled filenames, suggests the possibility of a hard drive going bad.
Before repairing permissions, emptying the trash, or anything else, I recommend a Verify Disk in Disk Utility.
Only proceed with the other actions if it finds no errors. If it finds any errors, consider getting a new disk and doing a complete backup ASAP. If the disk is really going bad, I've never known it to get better by itself, only worse.
I have found numerous files in my trash with unusual names like "þøúmo|/ý.exã" and "ð³ë¾Ž\ø^.tæ" that I cannot delete. Can someone tell me about them and what should I do?
if you running snow leopard or lower. i'd try iempty as remove most annoying apps that won't go away. should find it on macupdate.com
Do you have a Windows Bootcamp partition? Strangely named undeletable files in Trash are often due to something happening in Windows. You may be able to fix it with a chkdsk http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329662-263.html
I humbly apologize my big mistake. it available on cnet.com http://download.cnet.com/iEmpty/3000-2094_4-48925.html
it won't work on 10.7 but works on sl 10.6.8
Empty Trash
Do these in order.
FIRST BACKUP ALL YOUR IMPORTANT FILES(optical disks plus time machiene plus ftp sites, email them to yourself, or use an online backup program).
Don't take chances with your data.
The second thing to do is to put the offending file, or files in the trash and restart holding the <RETURN> key,"safe mode".
Then use the disk utility to repair permissions.
Then run disk utilty from the startup disk and repair the disk.
Get a utility like disk warrior and rebuild the directory of the startup disk.
Trash and other problems are symptoms of impending failures.
Using special utilities to empty the trash does not fix the problem.
If all else fails do a clean install of your system and restore your files and programs.
Most Trash problems are due to system, or file corruption.I have found numerous files in my trash with unusual names like "þøúmo|/ý.exã" and "ð³ë¾Ž\ø^.tæ" that I cannot delete. Can someone tell me about them and what should I do?
Do these in order.
FIRST BACKUP ALL YOUR IMPORTANT FILES(optical disks plus time machiene plus ftp sites, email them to yourself, or use an online backup program).
Don't take chances with your data.
The second thing to do is to put the offending file, or files in the trash and restart holding the <RETURN> key,"safe mode".
Then use the disk utility to repair permissions.
Then run disk utilty from the startup disk and repair the disk.
Get a utility like disk warrior and rebuild the directory of the startup disk.
Trash and other problems are symptoms of impending failures.
Using special utilities to empty the trash does not fix the problem.
If all else fails do a clean install of your system and restore your files and programs.