Trash will not empty.

[aaronvan]

I'm running OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006)

My trash will not empty using the finder. No matter what files are in the trash when I try to empty it I get the little pop-up that says, "the operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items."

Using the same account I can open a terminal and sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/* empties the trash without complaint but then it's back to the above message when I use the finder. I empty my trash 4-6 times a day I don't want to open a terminal every time to empty the trash.

Is anyone else having this problem or know a solution?

 

[GGJstudios]

For problems deleting items or emptying the trash, you may find some useful ideas here:

You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash
Solving Trash Problems
Can't move files to trash
Can't Empty Trash on a Mac​

 

[aaronvan]

For problems deleting items or emptying the trash, you may find some useful ideas here:

You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash
Solving Trash Problems
Can't move files to trash
Can't Empty Trash on a Mac​

Yea, I looked at all those. They mostly deal with force-emptying the trash or permissions issues. My permissions for trash are:

drwx------   3 aaronvan  staff      102 Nov 17   11:49       .Trash

 

[switon]

RE: ls -ale...

Hi,

Would you please do a "ls -ale ~/.Trash" so that we can see the ACLs?

Thanks,
Switon

P.S. Sorry, but I'm not going to be around to reply to your response, but you should see some "inherit" ACLs and since your "ls -al" did not end in a "+" I suspect that these are missing. Perhaps when you delete the .Trash folder completely then the Finder/OS does not recreate it with the proper ACLs...

 

[aaronvan]

Hi,

Would you please do a "ls -ale ~/.Trash" so that we can see the ACLs?

Thanks,
Switon

P.S. Sorry, but I'm not going to be around to reply to your response, but you should see some "inherit" ACLs and since your "ls -al" did not end in a "+" I suspect that these are missing. Perhaps when you delete the .Trash folder completely then the Finder/OS does not recreate it with the proper ACLs...

Here it is:

total 0
drwx------   2 aaronvan  staff   68 Nov 17 16:06 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 25 aaronvan  staff  850 Nov 17 16:04 ..
 0: group:everyone deny delete

Anyway, I deleted .Trash and then reinstalled it. That seems to have fixed things, at least for now.

 

[switon]

Here it is:

total 0
drwx------   2 aaronvan  staff   68 Nov 17 16:06 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 25 aaronvan  staff  850 Nov 17 16:04 ..
 0: group:everyone deny delete

Anyway, I deleted .Trash and then reinstalled it. That seems to have fixed things, at least for now.

When you say you "reinstalled it", what does this mean? Did you restore .Trash from a TM backup?

Is the above "ls -ale ~/.Trash" from before you reinstalled .Trash or after you reinstalled .Trash? I'm just curious since if it is after you reinstalled .Trash then I'm a little surprised that there aren't ACLs for "inherits".

Thanks, and glad you got it working,
Switon

 

[aaronvan]

When you say you "reinstalled it", what does this mean? Did you restore .Trash from a TM backup?

Is the above "ls -ale ~/.Trash" from before you reinstalled .Trash or after you reinstalled .Trash? I'm just curious since if it is after you reinstalled .Trash then I'm a little surprised that there aren't ACLs for "inherits".

Thanks, and glad you got it working,
Switon

I think it's from before but honestly I'm not sure. I tried so many different things I'm not positive what actually did the trick.

 

[switon]

RE: thanks...

It makes more sense if it was the "before", since I believe the ~/.Trash actually uses inherited ACLs so that it can be emptied.

Glad you solved your problem.

Thanks,
Switon