HELP! Deleting secure items from Trash?

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  1. Yaja123, May 1, 2005

    Yaja123 macrumors regular

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    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
     
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  2. dave_mac, May 1, 2005

    dave_mac macrumors newbie

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    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.




    :) :)
     
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  3. Yaja123, May 1, 2005

    Yaja123 thread starter macrumors regular

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    just restarted and then repaired the permissions - deleted everything.

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

    thanks anyway.
     
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