4ColorGrafix » Mac-Tips http://www.4colorgrafix.net the art and designs of Kofi Garbrah Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:34:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=5133 Delete Reappearing Trash on Mac OS X 10.5 http://www.4colorgrafix.net/2008/07/delete-reappearing-trash-mac/ http://www.4colorgrafix.net/2008/07/delete-reappearing-trash-mac/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:24:52 +0000 Webmaster K http://www.4colorgrafix.net/2008/07/17/delete-reappearing-trash-mac/ "The Trash came back the very next day..." Have you ever had the problem of trash that just won't disappear? You've tried empty trash. NO GO! You've tried secure empty trash. STILL NO GO! You've tried rm -rf. STILL HERE! You've tried sudo rm -rf. FAILED AGAIN! WHY WON'T THIS TRASH DISAPPEAR?
“The Trash came back the very next day…”

Have you ever had the problem of trash that just won’t disappear?

You’ve tried empty trash. NO GO!
You’ve tried secure empty trash. STILL NO GO!
You’ve tried rm -rf. STILL HERE!
You’ve tried sudo rm -rf. FAILED AGAIN!

WHY WON’T THIS TRASH DISAPPEAR?

Calm down.

It is probably caused by an extra drive on your mac. Either an external hard drive or a drive partition. Instead of wasting hours (as I did) trying to fix this, do the following:

  1.  Copy all important files from your extra drive to your main drive.
  2. Reformat your extra drive.
  3. Copy important files back.

This seems like a serious bug for the mac. Hopefully Apple will address it soon.

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