HELP! Deleting secure items from Trash?

[Yaja123]

I made some copies of my HD onto a Lacie drive using silverkeeper.

anyway, i deleted all my copies (50gb's worth) and they went to the mac trash, or so it looks.

i just tried to empty the trash and it gets to a certain point and says "The operation could not be completed because the item "wmphelp.htm" is locked" - the two buttons, stop or continue. if i chose continue then it comes up with the same message.

so at the moment i cant empty the trash... or is it virtual trash?

in the last week i did turn on File Vault.... ??

anyone know what i can do? thanks

 

[dave_mac]

I'm not sure this will help but try holding down your curser over the trash icon untill a dia box open's saying " empty trash " and then click that box.

Its worked for me with locked files before

Good luck.

I made some copies of my HD onto a Lacie drive using silverkeeper.

anyway, i deleted all my copies (50gb's worth) and they went to the mac trash, or so it looks.

i just tried to empty the trash and it gets to a certain point and says "The operation could not be completed because the item "wmphelp.htm" is locked" - the two buttons, stop or continue. if i chose continue then it comes up with the same message.

so at the moment i cant empty the trash... or is it virtual trash?

in the last week i did turn on File Vault.... ??

anyone know what i can do? thanks

 

[Yaja123]

just restarted and then repaired the permissions - deleted everything.

should have known the 'ole restart' solution would do it!

thanks anyway.