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Can't secure empty trash in OS X
I'm trying to empty the trash but it shows an alert that prompts me to Stop or Continue.
When I click Continue it terminates the process – but how do I format or empty the trash in OS X?
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Using Mac OS X `at` to schedule a daily task to clear out .Trash folders
How do I use the OS X at command to schedule a daily clean-up of the user's .Trash folder?
I'm thinking something along the lines of:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/**/* | at 0:00 + 1 day
Will this clean the ...
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Mac Trash won't empty, and rm ~/.Trash/* does nothing
The Trash icon on my Dock shows the Trash containing files. I tried right-clicking and Empty Trash, but it still shows files there.
When I open the Trash folder in Finder, I can see several files ...
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OS X Lion: Emptying the trash takes “forever”: is using rm -r safe?
Emptying my Trash in OS X Lion (non securely) is taking about three hours (about 1.5 million files, from a Time Machine backup). I had to stop the process a few times already, because I could not move ...
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How to restore all the files from trash in Mac OS X?
I can put back the items one by one, but there are too many files, how could I restore all the files in the trash?
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Unable to delete folders in trash which containing .svn files
Now I am stuck with strange errors in my MacBook Pro. I am not able to empty folders in trash which contain .svn files. I tried to surf around the net and unfortunately i am still stuck in it. Is ...
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Undo deletion of target directory after finding out OS X can't merge directories
I am a developer on OSX. I like to believe I know a lot about computers, but now I feel a mix of sillyness, disbelief and rage. Also, please excuse the drama. ;)
I was working on a web project when I ...
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Can't delete items from Trash
There are some locked files in my trash that I removed from an external hard drive. I have tried a few different things but I delete them.
I have tried:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
mkdir ~/.Trash
killall ...
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Can I securely trash a folder that contains applications without ruining the applications on my HD?
I get a dialogue box asking if I want to leave or trash associated files as I am trashing an application. The folder in question is a duplicate of one I have saved in Documents. The applications are ...
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Cannot delete file in OS X
I have a file in trash, and I cannot delete it. Before you ask me to STFW, no, the file is not locked :-/
The file is a symbolic link to nothing (target is deleted). Here is the output of ls -lO on ...
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Is it possible to interrupt or cancel the trash-delete process?
I am connected to the company server, onsite not remote, which is Windows based. When, in the OS finder, I go to delete a file or directory that resides on the window-based server, the trash progress ...
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A file is still in use when trying to empty the Trash – how can I remove it?
When you try to empty the Trash in OS X, and there is a file still open in an application, you receive the dialog:
The operation can't be completed because the item "…" is in use.
How can I ...
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What is the difference between moving a file to Trash and using Terminal to rm it?
What is the difference between moving a file to Trash and using the Terminal to rm it?
What is the idea behind the scenes?
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Files deleted from iTunes library don't go to Trash
I am running OS X 10.6.7 and iTunes 10.4.
When I delete music or a podcast from the library in iTunes, I get a warning whether I would like to keep or move the file to Trash. I respond that I want ...
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Secure Empty Trash shows over 60,000 items - Trash folder shows 60
On OS X 10.5.8, I opened all folders in the Trash & it shows 60 items total. I clicked "Secure Empty" and it showed over 60,000 items being deleted. I stopped the Secure Empty but I'm sure it ...
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Safe substitute for OS X `rm`?
I am used to having rm to alias something safer.
I have been using osx-trash, but once I upgrade to Ruby 1.9.2, this stops working.
I know about trash-cli from Python, but I would much prefer ...
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How is the “secure empty trash” option on Mac OS X any more secure than emptying it normally?
On Mac OS X there is an option for securely emptying the trash. How is this any more secure than emptying the trash the normal way? Does it overwrite the old data instead of just erasing it?
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Can not remove all files from Trash in OS X
I am try to empty the Trash, which takes forever. Most of the files have been removed, but I am left with several that will not delete, and I now get the following message:
The operation can’t be ...
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Where is the recycle bin in Finder on Mac OS X?
At the bottom of my screen there is the recycle bin. Is there someway to unpin it from there?
By the way, where is the recycle bin in Finder?
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Can't delete files in trash because they don't exist on OS X 10.6?
Something funky happened on one of my external drives and now whenever I plug it in 2 files show up in my Trash. If I empty the Trash via Finder, nothing happens. Ditto for the Option+Empty Trash ...
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Trash won't empty (OSX): “The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8003)”
Like the title says -- I can't empty the trash on my OSX (10.6.4). I get "The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8003)" alert with stop & continue ...
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How to delete trash items using terminal?
I have some important and some unimportant items in trash.
I need to delete the unimportant files from trash, but when I empty the trash, my important files are also deleted.
How to delete trash ...
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Can items deleted from “Trash” be recovered?
On a Mac we have option to delete items securely from trash, while deleting it warns that: "once deleted items will not be recovered".
I want to know that is there any way by which items deleted ...
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unexpected trash contents
As I was proceeding to empty the trash on this machine (Mac OS X version 10.6.3), a listing of thousands of items began accumulating. Trash itself shows some 237 items, many of them folders labeled ...
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Trash won't empty in Mac OS X
When I am trying to secure empty my trash, I get a dialogue box saying:
The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items."
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How do I recover data after emptying trash in OS X? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there any free undelete software for the Mac?
I have deleted my data from my drive. The data was in trash. But then I emptied the trash.
So I want to get my data ...
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How can I free files that are in use by quicklook?
I have a couple pictures I was looking through and deleting stuck in my trash (Mac OS X 10.6 latest) and finder tells me they are in use when I try to delete them.
I looked around online and found ...
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Delete the pendrive contents and also trash in Mac OS X?
I am using a MacBook Pro. I copied some data from my pen drive to my Mac and deleted the content by moving it to trash. After that when I see the info of pen drive it give more value than the ...
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Efficiently and Safely Deleting or Un-Trashing Time Machine Backups
I have been storing my Time Machine backups on an external drive. Noticing that space was getting low, I viewed that external drive in the Finder, selected a bunch of the folders and moved them to the ...
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Deleting a single file from the trash in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
In earlier versions of Mac OS X one could delete a file from the trash by opening a terminal window and typing rm ~/.Trash/file_i_want_to_delete. See this previous post.
Unlike earlier versions in ...
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How to show Trash on Desktop (Mac)?
Is there any way to show icon of Trash on Desktop? The Trash is displayed on Dock. I have tried to create an alias to ~/.Trash on my Desktop, but it is just an alias and does not have the same ...
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How do I create a shortcut key to trash all files in a particular folder?
I'd like to be able to utilize such a shortcut without having to actually be in Finder looking at the folder whose contents I want to delete. For example, I could be surfing the 'net and suddenly ...
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How disable mac snow leopard creating .Spotlight-V100 and .Trash folders in USB Flash Drivers?
Everytime I put a USB Flash Driver the Mac OS X creates 2 folders .Trash and .Spotlight-V100. Is it possible to disable this operation?
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How to tell where an item in the Trash came from?
The Mac OS X 10.6 Trash shows an option "Put back" for files that were trashed after installing 10.6. However, it does not show where the file will be put back to.
So: using Finder, is there any way ...
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Is there a way to force Time Machine to backup the .Trash Folder?
I am sure though that we have run into the scenario where we have thought that we no longer need that file and we put it in the the Trash. The whole purpose of the .Trash (even Recycle Bin on Windows) ...
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Problems with Mac's Trash
I deleted a HUGE load of backup from an external HD (about 5 million files). Since then, the folder is "stuck" in Trash, never deleted.
Once I go to Terminal and do:
rm -rf ~/.Trash
It deletes ...
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Quickly Empty Trash in Mac OS X
Emptying the trash in OS X can be a long process, especially If you have lots of items (like me). This is after 5 minutes:
Is there a way to quickly empty the trash, or make the process a whole lot ...
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how to delete a single item from trash forever in mac os x
There are 20 items in the trash.
I want to delete a single selected item from trash.
How is it possible?
I asked this question because in the following circumstances I was confused.
Suppose I ...
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How do I delete a file using the Terminal from my Trash in Mac OS X?
From a previous question I have applied following command to my file.
sudo chflags -R nouchg TopSites.plist
sudo chmod 444 TopSites.plist
Now that the file is locked, I don't know how to remove it.
...
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Why does emptying the trash in Snow Leopard take so long?
Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about ...
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How can I restore an item from the Trash in Mac OS X?
Windows provides restore item to the position from where it was deleted.
But I couldn't find any option to restore an item from trash.
Is it possible to restore an item from where it was moved to ...
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How to empty the trash?
There is a strange file in my Trash that doesn't go away when I empty the trash. The file name looks like:
␀␀␀õ␀␀.õ␀
The file is apparently in /Volumes/NO NAME/.Trashes/501/ ("NO NAME" is my boot ...
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AppTrap alternative? (Deleting Applications)
I've been using AppTrap for some time now, however it's no longer being maintained. Is their something similar out there that's being actively maintained and will work with the next OS release?
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Empty the contents of Trash for only a single volume
How can I empty the Trash only for an attached external drive, but not at the same time for the internal hard disk?
