trash can issues

[emt8q5]

Has anyone else experienced an issue where the trash can icon on the dock always shows as full (with the piece of paper in it) even when empty? I have no files in the trash and have restarted my machine several times and I cannot get the trashcan icon to show as empty. Any advice?

Thanks
Eric

 

[ergdegdeg]

Check in Terminal. Open Terminal (Apps >> Utilities >> Terminal), then type "cd .Trash", press enter, type "ls -a" and press enter. A few things will appear. Is there anything apart from "." and ".."?

 

[scaredpoet]

A truly empty trash can should look something like this in terminal:

 

[emt8q5]

this is what I get when I type in those terminal commands

 

[scaredpoet]

Yup, you're empty.

Hmm... have you tried going into activity monitor and killing the "Dock" task? The Dock might need to restart in order to update itself.

 

[emt8q5]

I've tried quitting both dock and finder. I've also rebooted multiple times to no effect.

 

[cmrn]

I am also having this problem. I have checked my trash can in the terminal and there is only . and ..

It is really annoying and I would like to have it fixed

 

[ecab0325]

I was having the same problem, but after moving another file to the trash so that it actually had something in it, I emptied the trash and the icon became empty!