Can't empty trash, tried secure (option-cmd-shift-del) & Terminal

Have had this issue for a while and searched the Community for answers before.
Had over a million items in the Trash (after trying to clean stuff up) - I know, I know.
I usually do the Secure Empty Trash, with no problems, but now that so much was in the Trash, it kept quitting the emptying process, and not actually emptying.
Then I tried the Option-Command-Shift-Delete, and am down to about 17,000+ items.
When I try to empty Trash now, it empties about 500-1000 items, then stops/quits emptying.
Then if I try it again, it counts up the items to empty and I still have that same 17k+ items.
Today I tried the Terminal commands, but the trash was still full when I signed back in...
So now what?
Thanks.
Diana

Relaunch the Finder, then from the Finder menu bar, select
Finder ▹ Preferences... ▹ Advanced
and uncheck the box marked
Empty Trash securely
Try again to empty the Trash.

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