Error code when emptying trash

I'm getting the following message when I try to empty the trash:
The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)
I've tried Secure empty trash and "option" empty trash and nothing seems to work? Work should I do?
thanks,
"C"
Message was edited by: cpmusicSW

Well, I hate to give you the bad news, but you have a disk full of time machine backup files that
won't go away, yeah, the names are gone, but the disk space they are sitting on is locked up
tight as fort knox. You see, time machine places special ACL permissions on all its backup
files. If these ACL's are not removed before deleting the files, the visible name is the only thing
that gets deleted, the file map does not get removed, so the OS still "sees" the space as allocated
even though you can't see anything.
Back up your data, reformat (erase) and restore.
Next time let time machine remove its own backups.
http://spicysquid.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-delete-old-time-machine-backups.ht ml
Kj

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