Can't open Trash Folder?

[whyrichard]

Hey,

I can't open my trash folder on my '09 mac pro... i click on it in my dock, and literally nothing happens. the trash can icon just blinks.

I have an '09 mac pro, with my boot disk on a raid 0 totally 160 gigs of intel ssd's... os x lion.

what the? what should i do?

thanks,
r.

 

[derbothaus]

The Trash is probably deleted accidentally. You can recreate it easy enough.
Open a terminal shell and type:
cd ~ (press return)
ls -a (press return)
If .Trash is not present in the list type:
mkdir .Trash
Trash will be back and usable again.

 

[whyrichard]

.trash was on the list... but thank you for your effort...

r.

 

[derbothaus]

.trash was on the list... but thank you for your effort...

r.

Reboot could clear it up.
Can you navigate into Trash via Terminal? Is there anything in it?
cd ~/.Trash
ls (press return)


You can also relaunch the Dock.
killall Dock (press return)

Can you give any more details? It just blinks? I have never seen any directory or link just "blink". Trash is nothing more than a directory. Question mark and warnings, yes.

You could delete the Trash directory and re-create a fresh one following the directions I posted earlier.

 

[will.billy]

I had the same issue. Not sure what the situation was. But, terminal showed all was well, relaunching the dock didn't help, but the reboot fixed it.