This is a common scenario when Mac users clearing Trash, thus, it is necessary to give you some solutions. You might receive messages multiple times which said “This operation can’t be completed because the item ‘insert file name here’ is in use.”
In this post, we’d like to talk about why you receive messages as mentioned above and how to release the files on your Mac so you can delete it safely. Some items in the Trash cannot be deleted because of system integrity protection.A file is named with a special character that makes your Mac think it’s too important to be deleted.Some files are locked or destroyed and need to be repaired.I am on Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, backing up my drive before the impending 10.7 Lion release.Cannot Empty the Trash on Mac? Most of you may believe that emptying the Trash is the easiest task in the world until you get the error messages which stop you to empty the trash. so that's why I resorted to using root-mode Finder. I didn't have much luck with chown or cp under sudo either. In my case, I wanted to backup and delete my Carbon Copy Cloner archived files (created in incremental backups), as just copying and pasting the "_CCC Archives" folder to a separate location threw up a load of errors while using Finder in normal user mode. The asterisk wildcard not working might be a pain if you have many files and/or folders in the root Trash of a mounted volume.ĬAUTION: Using Finder in root mode is definitely ill-advised for general use use it in special circumstances.
Which maps out to this, I guess: sudo rm -rf /Volumes//.Trashes/0/ (Perhaps it was due to the double quotation marks at the ends perhaps it needed the backslash format as demonstrated below.) Instead, I had to manually add the folder name in my case: sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Backup\ of\ Macintosh\ HD/.Trashes/0/_CCC\ Archives You will hear the trash emptying sound, but the trash does not get emptied.Īlso, when browsing Finder in root mode doesn't show the hidden files and folders, even if you have enabled this option in your own user account.įollowing Chealion's rm command with the asterisk at the end didn't seem to work for me. If you need to empty the Trash of a mounted volume when using Finder in root mode (see ), it seems you can't just press Empty Trash in the Trash folder after pressing the icon (even ensuring the normal Finder isn't open).
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