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oYx

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Sep 2, 2007
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I have two partitions on my MBP's internal disk.

Deleting files on the 'system' partition will result in the files going to Trash.

However, on the 'data' partition, deleting files will result in a warning saying that they will be deleted immediately.

How do I get the files deleted on the 'data' partition to go to Trash?
 
Same issue, this fixed it for me:

The drive's invisible Trashes folder might be corrupt. Try deleting it by entering this Terminal command:



rm -rf /Volumes/drivename/.Trashes



Then unmount the drive and remount it.



Make sure you have the data on the drived backed up. Mistyping that Terminal command by putting even a space in the wrong place can delete everything on it.

From
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3846231?tstart=0

I found it easier to navigate to the (hidden) .Trashes folder, and drag that into Terminal with the following before:

rm -rf

Note: include the space after rf
 
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