I've pretty much tried everything I can think of but I'm unable to empty 2 files my trash can I can drag the two files out and they just disappear but when I go back to the trash they are both back again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Unable to delete trash files
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Nice program but it didn't do the trick, both the files seem to be corrupt which may be the issue. I've attached a screen shot of my trash window.
http://idisk.mac.com/nath.mel-Public
http://idisk.mac.com/nath.mel-Public
With the possible corruption you can attempt to do a Repair Disk Permissions. You'll find this in the Disk Utility app. Select your hard drive from the left, then click the Verify Disk Permissions, and if it finds problems you can use the Repair Disk Permissions button.
Something else to try, go to Terminal, type: cd .Trash then type ls -ago and copy and paste the results here. It may reveal something about the files that we can use to help.
Have you tried Finder > Secure Empty Trash?
That has yet to fail me in Leopard and I've come across a few tough to delete file.
I have the same file with the little null symbols and the two umlauts, I looked at it in terminal. It turns out that it is a file in the trash of my windows partition. So if you're like me and have a windows partition just try booting that up and emptying the recycling bin. In theory that will solve it, I'm just too impatient to boot XP to see if it actually works.