Trash error message

[gilliard]

Hi hope you can help. I get an error message when I try to delete the contents of the trash, it reads: The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error -8003). I have shut down and started but it stays the same. I have done verify disc and the result was: disk appears to be ok.
There is hardly anything in the trash, just one screen shot 70KB, 2 folders: (msoclip, this folder says the error code) Recovered files🙁nothing in this folder). All that is left is the Picasa Application which I did not want, this is 86.4 MB. I am wondering if this is what is causing the problem so can you guys suggest something, thanks in advance.
gilliard 🙂

 

[MacUser2525]

Hi hope you can help. I get an error message when I try to delete the contents of the trash, it reads: The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error -8003). I have shut down and started but it stays the same. I have done verify disc and the result was: disk appears to be ok.
There is hardly anything in the trash, just one screen shot 70KB, 2 folders: (msoclip, this folder says the error code) Recovered files🙁nothing in this folder). All that is left is the Picasa Application which I did not want, this is 86.4 MB. I am wondering if this is what is causing the problem so can you guys suggest something, thanks in advance.
gilliard 🙂

Apparently unexpected and unknown.

MacUser2525:~$ macerror -8003
Unknown error (-8003) at /usr/bin/macerror5.16 line 40, <DATA> line 1.

MacUser2525:~$ macerror 8003
Unknown error (8003) at /usr/bin/macerror5.16 line 40, <DATA> line 1.

MacUser2525:~$ rm -r .Trash/*

Open Terminal and use the last line the rm one, if it complains it still cannot do it then put sudo at the front of the command.

 

[gilliard]

error code 8003

Thanks for replying so quickly, I am afraid I am no programer and not sure what to do with your instructions. May I ask for a step by step instruction unless there is another way. Maybe I will do a start up disk clean what do you think. Thanks again. 🙂

 

[MacUser2525]

Thanks for replying so quickly, I am afraid I am no programer and not sure what to do with your instructions. May I ask for a step by step instruction unless there is another way. Maybe I will do a start up disk clean what do you think. Thanks again. 🙂

Go to the Applications folder then Utilities folder select the Terminal once it opens type in then hit the enter key rm -r .Trash/*. This will manually delete the files contained in the trash and if it complains you do not have permission then use sudo rm -r .Trash/* type in your account password and this will delete the files as root.