Computer Hangs moving file to trash

While moving a file to trash, nothing happened, indicator just spins. Hit cancel button, and indicates computer is stopping deletion, however has been doing it for 20 min. Computer won't let me restart / shut down computer. Any ideas?

If you can still navigate with your mouse...
Go to /Applications /Utilities/Terminal and launch it.
At the prompt, copy and paste this command
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
Press Return.
You will be asked to enter your admin password. It will be invisible.
Enter it and press Return.
Log out and back in or restart.

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File could not be moved to the Trash

hi everibody
thi is my problem
i can move any file or folder to the trash
the error say ("file could not be moved to the Trash")
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ext4 is a partition in which I can not move the files but if I delete directly so something is wrong with the ntfs partition if you can but not in the partition of the system
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# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
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Last edited by akonerz (2010-02-12 01:49:26)

Well its kind of hard to decode your english (no offense! I'm just not sure I understand what you mean)
Let's do some tests.
First check if your user belongs to the "storage" group (have a look at /etc/group or open a terminal and as root type
grep <your-username> /etc/group
Youwill get a list of groups your user belongs to. One should look like this: storage:x:95:<your-username>,hal
If storage is not part of that list, add your user to this group (as root):
gpasswd -a <your-username> storage
Next test: open a terminal in your users home directory and do
touch test.txt
This should just create an empty file named test.txt.
You won't get output if it worked, so you may check if it really was created with
ls -l
That will list the content of the directory. You should see test.txt there, probably other files too.
If this fails the drive is probably mounted read-only (I see no reason this should be the case in your fstab but better be sure). Btw. is it an internal drive or let's say external USB-Harddisk?
If the above works you know at least that the drive is mounted read-write and that you have write permissions in you home-folder as it should be.
Next Step: try deleting the file again witch
rm test.txt
and check again with the ls -l if it was deleted.
None of this will immediately solve your problem but we might get a hint what is going wrong...
If you get any error messages post them here.
Sorry but I don't understand what you mean with "but I can not root as you can send files to the trash"
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