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SSD Disk is full...Trash Empty...but is not
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I had never heard of Daisy Disk. Do you think the issue has anything to do with your use of Daisy Disk? Is DD showing that much trash in your current User Account?
You should probably empty the Trash via a Terminal command. Search Google for "Mac remove trash terminal" and limit the search for the past year. There should be some good instructions at a reputable site.
This will only empty the trash for the account in which you are currently logged in.
You should probably empty the Trash via a Terminal command. Search Google for "Mac remove trash terminal" and limit the search for the past year. There should be some good instructions at a reputable site.
This will only empty the trash for the account in which you are currently logged in.
No access to system at the moment.
If above suggestion does not work, what else could I try?
Do you mean that you are not close to the computer to try?
Or, that the system isn't working well enough to do that? Single-user does not boot to your user, just a command line interface.
You can also try booting to Safe Boot (hold the shift key as you boot, you will log in to your user, even if it normally goes direct to your finder.) Safe Boot does a bit of cache cleanup, and might help get your drive pared down to a more usable size.
Or, you can boot to an OS X system on an external drive. You should be able to browse to the internal drive and remove some files/folders that you don't need, but take up space.
I think that the root cause of this problem is some phantom Trash folder on the system which badly needs to be flushed out. Daisy Disk is reporting a 450GB Thrash for the only user.
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I do not have access to the system right now
That's the one I've used before. Once you've entered your password be sure to wait for the Terminal prompt to reappear as the progress of the emptying process will not be displayed.
Yes, if the external drive is attached and mounted. Would show that there are items in the trash. Those items will disappear from the trash when the drive is ejected. THAT'S why you want to make sure that external drives are ejected, perhaps including net storage volumes. That's the only way that you will see an accurate reading of the amount of files in the trash. (each volume has its own trash.
Predictably, you can't empty the trash for a volume, unless that volume is mounted.
Predictably, you can't empty the trash for a volume, unless that volume is mounted.
Diane, worked like a charm!
Ejected - rebooted - deleted Trash again. This time all space magically came back to SSD.
No need to run any Terminal commands.
Thanks to everyone who contributed - your input was much appreciated.