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rawdawg

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jan 7, 2009
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Brooklyn
I've called AppleCare and they tell me there's nothing I can do. Side-not, has AppleCare gone terribly downhill, I was practically instructing her...

I recently bought a new MBP. I wanted to start fresh instead of migrating over. Perhaps I'm wrong but I feel it gets rid of older glitches despite the extra effort reinstalling programs. My previous Mac Mini wouldn't properly shut down the past few years.

Before I sold my old Mac Mini and started fresh I saved everything as an emergency backup using CCC. It lived on an external hard drive.

I got all set up with my new MBP. But I open applications using spotlight and noticed spotlight was opening applications from the old backup I made. So I began manually deleting certain things I didn't want it to open. One of those applications was my old Disk Utility.

But the trash can won't empty it - "Some items in the Trash cannot be deleted because of System Integrity Protection."

So now it's stuck there. Does anyone have a way to delete this? I'm timid about terminal but if that's the only way I'll give it a try. How do I find it's path now that it's in my trash?

Yes, I've tried "delete immediately" directly from the trash but it won't work. :(
 

dianeoforegon

macrumors 6502a
Apr 26, 2011
907
137
Oregon
Did you try putting it back?

Next unmount the external drive, then try deleting the app.

You can have Spotlight ignore the external or you can keep the drive unmounted unless you need to search for something.
 

Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009
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Solution:
1. Disable SIP
2. Empty trash
3. Re-enable SIP

Personal experience:
From the very first time it was introduced, I have DISABLED SIP as a matter of course on all my OS installs.
Things run just fine without it, thank you very much!
 

rawdawg

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jan 7, 2009
550
111
Brooklyn
Did you try putting it back?

Next unmount the external drive, then try deleting the app...
Interestingly, it still resides in the same location on that external hard drive in addition to the trash in that hard drive (so I'm not able to put it back and when I try SIP stops me anyhow). When I unmount the drive it dissappears from my trash until I remount. Thanks though

Solution:
1. Disable SIP
2. Empty trash
3. Re-enable SIP

Personal experience:
From the very first time it was introduced, I have DISABLED SIP as a matter of course on all my OS installs.
Things run just fine without it, thank you very much!

Perfect! I will try this, thanks!
 
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