Trash Problem

[desmith1944]

Hi, I am a new MAC user, I just bought a IMac and I started having problems getting the trash to empty.
I came across a app called Trash it!.app. Not sure where I found it now but, if you Google search you should be able to find it.
Anyway I loaded and ran the app. If makes it own Trash Icon. I went into my original trash and selected all the trash and drug it into the new Trash it. My computer did nothing for about a minute. I decided to reboot when the computer completed the reboot my Mac trash was empty.
Not sure why this worked but, I am happy it did.
I think I will use that trash it! until someone comes up with a fix for the Mac Trash.
Give it a try and let me know if it helped. Thanks, Dave.

 

[blueroom]

Since you're new to Macs why did you install a third party trash app?

 

[desmith1944]

blueroom

Hi, I searched for a fix for the trash problem in Lion and I tried all suggestions without a fix to my problem.
I came across this app and gave it a try and it worked.
My trash is now empty where it wasn't before. Dave

 

[blueroom]

Make sure to run Disk Utility and check / repair permissions. Could have been that simple.

 

[desmith1944]

blueroom

Thanks but, I tried that also, Dave.

 

[Weaselboy]

Usually trash won't empty because a file in the trash is still in use. You can fix it by determining which file that is, then go to Activity Monitor and force quit the locked file.