Reason and Solution of unable to empty Trash. There could be numerous reason of being unable to empty the trash. Some of the major reasons are mentioned below with the troubleshooting steps you need to follow in any such scenarios. In many but not all cases, troublesome files reside on an external volume or drive. Manually deleting Time Machine backups via Finder — which is a big no-no — commonly triggers these problems. Other times, files on the main boot drive are in use by running applications and cannot be removed or the files are shared on network and are being used.
Restarting the computer and then emptying the Trash always fix such issues if it does not, then try to empty trash forcefully by following method. Sometimes the file can not be deleted or moved to trash because it is locked.
Select the file you are trying to move to trash or delete, then choose Get Info from the File menu. If the item you are trying to unlock is a folder,use these steps:.
This means that you cannot unlock the file until its system immutable flag is disabled. To solve this issue refer to the following link. If these key combination does not work use the method mentioned in step 3. Sometimes files become corrupt and need some attention before they can be deleted or moved to trash. This only needs to be done once. When finished, restart your Mac and try to force empty the Trash as described above. Trash Folder grant yourself Full permission to empty the Trash.
To be able to clear or empty trash make sure you have full permission on trash, if not grant yourself full permission using the following command. Open Terminal. This is the Unix based abbreviation to permissions on a file or folder which is a little complex and not too user friendly.
A zero means no access. Each of the three numerals is the sum of permissions for Owner, Group, and Other, respectively. Note the name of the volume which the files are being deleted from. If the name of the volume contains any special ASCII characters, such as a bullet or trademark character, temporarily rename the volume so that it does not contain these characters.
Examine the name of the files or folders you cannot delete. If the file does, remove the special character or slash from its name, then delete it. Quit the application that is using the file. This may let you move the file to the Trash or to empty the Trash. Note: One must be careful when terminating processes as certain background processes are needed for Mac OS X. If you do not know what effect quitting a process may have, do not quit the process.
If files are locked, you should unlock them before deleting. You should try to close the app that is using the file. And you can also quit all the running apps to make sure that the file is no more being used by any of the apps. Then try to delete the file, if the error message appears again, please restart your Mac. And the file can be moved to Trash, then feel free to empty Trash on Mac. To solve this problem, just rename the file and remove the special characters, then delete the file.
Using Terminal to empty Trash is the ultimate solution you should take, only if all of the above have failed. Allan Allan 78k 24 24 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I have disabled Gatekeeper. In the preference pane it is set to Anywhere.
Add a comment. I got the same message today as well. Allan 78k 24 24 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Rich Rich 31 1 1 bronze badge. Since it's happening on all files, it's not the same problem described for JOSM.
You can also disable Gatekeeper for a single file by right-clicking and choosing "open", rather than needing to change the system-wide setting. This keeps occurring even though Gatekeeper is disabled. Right clicking and choosing "Open" also results in the error message. Hw does that differ from the other answer? Mark he describes it as helping with JOSM. Not sure how I can check that it is valid.
But that specific file is 96 byte file, so it looks fine. The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. The second way you can immediately delete a file is by using the menu bar. You will notice the options in that menu change slightly when you hold the Option key.
Move to Trash changes to Delete Immediately.
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