I can't EMPTY TRASH or SECURE EMPTY TRASH.

[leopard82]

I RECENTLY UPGRADED TO LEOPARD AND SINCE THEN I CAN'T EMPTY TRASH or SECURE EMPTY TRASH.

Please help.

 

[xUKHCx]

What happens when you try ?

 

[leopard82]

The pop up screen " Are you sure you wanna empty trash ...etc." appears and when I click OK the delete sound plays and the window closes

 

[xUKHCx]

Well that sounds perfectly normal so what are the symptoms you are experiencing ?

The files remain in the trash ?

What files are in the trash ?

Do they remain there after a reboot ?

Can you delete them after a reboot ?

 

[leopard82]

yeah... all files remain in trash such as word files, photoes , even after rebooting they still remain there.

 

[jellomizer]

Try this...
Open up the Trashbin in the Finder.
Choose each file and hit delete.

OR.. (I am going by memory here so some details may be wrong...)

Utilities->Terminal

cd .TRASH

ls

(this should give you a list of files.

Now do an rm filename for each file.

if this give some error you may need to do a
sudo rm filename

 

[leopard82]

I couldn't follow your instructions, could you explain step by step what I need to do and which utility to open?