hot to empty trash

[ehsanvaravi]

hi,
please help me.
i do not know how to empty trash on my imac.
i have tried all ways i read on internet like option keyu and empty trash but all of them didnt work and i am still able to view items in the trash.

how can i get rid of them....


please help

 

[ergdegdeg]

If you want to use Terminal, I might be able to help.

Open Terminal and type:

cd .Trash

Press return. Just to make sure, type:

ls -a

and press return. Do the files from your trash show?
If so, type and press return:

rm -r

 

[ehsanvaravi]

If you want to use Terminal, I might be able to help.

Open Terminal and type:

cd .Trash

Press return. Just to make sure, type:

ls -a

and press return. Do the files from your trash show?
If so, type and press return:

rm -r

thanks, when i did all of them , this message appeared:

usage: rm[-f | -i] [-dPRrvw] file ...
unlike file


what next?

 

[ergdegdeg]

Ooops. Sorry. Repeat from top and instead of rm -r, type

rm -r *

Be very careful with this. It deletes all contents of the folder you're in, so make sure, it's the trash.

 

[ehsanvaravi]

it asks many questions like:
override rw-r--r-- root/admin for Adobe After Effects CS4/Adobe After Effects CS4.app/Contents/Frameworks/dvaui.framework/Versions/A/Resources/png/Search_Magnify_NoMenu_Down.png?
with different file names...


i am confused
what shall i do?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Have you tried to restart the Mac...?

 

[ehsanvaravi]

i have but i dont know where the problem is.
it asks so many questions
is there any other way to empty the trash?

 

[ergdegdeg]

try it with a "sudo" before "rm -r *", thus:

sudo rm -r *

Again: Make sure you're in the trash directory!

 

[ehsanvaravi]

thanks alot
it worked amazingly...

 

[Arne]

better just open the Terminal next time and type

sudo rm -rf .Trash/*

That way you don't risk removing anything else than the Trash in case you accidentally are in the wrong directory

 

[johto]

better just open the Terminal next time and type

sudo rm -rf .Trash/*

That way you don't risk removing anything else than the Trash in case you accidentally are in the wrong directory

This is VERY dangerous command! Imagine what happens if you mistype and put a "space" before "/" or before "*"

See the safe results what would happen in that case by typing "ls -rf .Trash /*"