cannot empty trash in my Mac book air

[reza2010]

Mac Book Air

my Trash is not emptied by any instruction. I just hear the sound of empty trash basket.


thank you for your help,

 

[r.j.s]

Restart into Safe Mode by holding Shift on boot and then empty the trash.

 

[lordthistle]

I had a similar problem caused by the Windows installation I have. Are you using also Windows?

 

[Sigur]

Mac Book Air

my Trash is not emptied by any instruction. Just I heard the sound of empty trash basket.


thank you for your help,

What is in your Trash?

 

[reza2010]

Restart into Safe Mode by holding Shift on boot and then empty the trash.

thank you for your advise. I have done but it wasn't useful!?

 

[McGilli]

IF you open your trash - are there items in there?

If so - drag them out of the trash onto say - your desktop. once they are all out - then try placing them into the trash 1 at a time - and emptying your trash for each file.

Hopefully that helps.

PS - were the files that you put into the trash from an external hard drive? I only have this issue with an external drive when i try to delete files that were placed onto the external drive by my windows laptop - it can't delete some of the files for me sometimes....

 

[Sigur]

You could remove the files using the Terminal and your root account.

 

[yoppie]

You can download "What's Keeping Me" and see what is keeping your trash can from emptying.

 

[reza2010]

thank you

thank you Gilli,
what do you mean trash 1 ? anyhow I did all you said but there is one folder as i named in Trash .

about external drive. yes I think I deleted some of them from external hard drive.

what can i do now?

hepl!!!!!!!

IF you open your trash - are there items in there?

If so - drag them out of the trash onto say - your desktop. once they are all out - then try placing them into the trash 1 at a time - and emptying your trash for each file.

Hopefully that helps.

PS - were the files that you put into the trash from an external hard drive? I only have this issue with an external drive when i try to delete files that were placed onto the external drive by my windows laptop - it can't delete some of the files for me sometimes....

 

[reza2010]

You could remove the files using the Terminal and your root account.

could you please explain more! what's Terminal? root account?

 

[reza2010]

I had a similar problem caused by the Windows installation I have. Are you using also Windows?

you mean I use windows in my Mac ? yes I have windows. but when i am in Mac OS I can't empty it.

 

[tubbymac]

You can download "What's Keeping Me" and see what is keeping your trash can from emptying.

This.

 

[Sigur]

could you please explain more! what's Terminal? root account?

What is in your Trash?

Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and use sudo rm to remove it. Don't do anything stupid, though. It could kill your whole system.