This seems to be working for me, but how long should this take? Hours?
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This took about an hour and a half to clean ~500GB of .Trashes backups from a 1TB drive.
I also got messages like this:
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/Comparable: Invalid argument
<<<<<<Note: This is Invalid argument error message>>>>>>>>
<<<<<<Note: following are errors trying to delete the directories above where I had the invalid argument>>>>>>>
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442: Directory not empty
So how do I delete the ones that gave me "Invalid argument"
Thank you very much
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This took about an hour and a half to clean ~500GB of .Trashes backups from a 1TB drive.
I also got messages like this:
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/Comparable: Invalid argument
<<<<<<Note: This is Invalid argument error message>>>>>>>>
<<<<<<Note: following are errors trying to delete the directories above where I had the invalid argument>>>>>>>
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Frameworks: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System/Library: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD/System: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442/Macintosh HD: Directory not empty
rm: .Trashes/502/HPP/2011-12-23-110442: Directory not empty
So how do I delete the ones that gave me "Invalid argument"
Thank you very much
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