I cant empty my trash !!!

hey guys
actully i cant empty my trash since yesterday i dont know what to do !!!
i know there is a script that i could delet files directly from terminal with this script :
cd ~/.Trash
sudo rm -rf
but i cant memorize this script and always put this script in terminal to delet my files
i wanna know is there anyway to delet my files diresctly from trash ?
thanx

You can try this. Open up the Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app and open a new file and copy & paste this: do shell script "srm -mrf ~/.Trash/*" Then in top menu above this paste, hit compile, then record, then stop, then run. Obviously let them all do their action before the next "hit." Then menu bar, file, save as, Application to Desktop. Then you just click it to empty via unix command. Then check the way you have been to see if all is gone.
Excuse my over kill on "then". Bad.
Message was edited by: doug pennington

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