Trash Won't Empty When HDD plugged in?!

[LP15]

YES TITLE THREAD IS MEANT TO BE EHD (external hard drive)! lol

I've been thru a million google searches and forums and I can't find this problem anywhere. I put a folder with music in it in the trash (from a Lacie portable HDD) and didn't realise it was locked. Now I can't delete it as I don't have sufficient privileges.

I can't change it in the folder get info view either and no matter whether I try put it on my desktop or back on the HDD it won't move or delete whats in the trash. I tried doing a terminal delete and dropping the folder into terminal but it says the directory doesn't exist?!

Help??

EDIT: I'm thinking it stuck in the HDD which is why whenever its plugged in the folder is in the trash. I'm looking for a way around having to format my EHD

 

[iKolja]

YES TITLE THREAD IS MEANT TO BE EHD (external hard drive)! lol

I've been thru a million google searches and forums and I can't find this problem anywhere. I put a folder with music in it in the trash (from a Lacie portable HDD) and didn't realise it was locked. Now I can't delete it as I don't have sufficient privileges.

I can't change it in the folder get info view either and no matter whether I try put it on my desktop or back on the HDD it won't move or delete whats in the trash. I tried doing a terminal delete and dropping the folder into terminal but it says the directory doesn't exist?!

Help??

EDIT: I'm thinking it stuck in the HDD which is why whenever its plugged in the folder is in the trash. I'm looking for a way around having to format my EHD

tried holding option/alt while deleting from trash ?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Try running the following in Terminal:

sudo rm -rf [drag and drop your external hard drive icon onto the Terminal window]/.Trashes

There should be no space before .Trashes. For example, I have a hard drive named Kohlberg, so for me it would be:

sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Kohlberg/.Trashes

Be careful to type this command exactly as I have here. This one can really screw up your system with no confirmation message if you type it wrong.

 

[MWPULSE]

have you tried holding alt/option as you empty the trash, that generally gets rid of all locked folders.

I cant think of anything else that it could be, other than repairing permissions.

Sorry i cant be of more help.

PTP

 

[LP15]

all good. just used my pc laptop to delete it. stupid mac and pc tiffs. lol