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alexjholland

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Hey

I moved over from Windows about four months ago, transferring around 110Gb of music in the process. For some reason a few files that seem to be corrupted MP3s (Bjork, for the record!) refuse to delete.

They've sat in my Trash for a couple of months, which will not empty them. I've tried renaming them, moving them onto USB sticks instead and all-sorts - but they just won't move.

Now if I try to move them out of trash, it says the file cannot read or be written, so just makes a copy instead.

They don't seem to be doing any harm, it's just I'm a neat-freak and have never seen an empty Trash logo since I set my iMac up!

Any ideas?
 
I would try disconnecting all peripherals then restarting your Mac in safe mode. Should empty then.
 
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