Trash emptying immediately

When I drag a file to the trash, I get warning "The item "plan" will be deleted immediately. Are you sure you want to continue?" If I click "delete" it empties immediately. If I click cancel, the file remains on the desk top.
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baltwo is correct, the problem is that the .Trash folder in your home directory was deleted somehow, and the Finder failed to recreate it (probably for the same reason that you running mkdir without sudo didn't work, permissions). After you have created the folder you have to set the correct permissions on the folder. So after you run:
+sudo mkdir ~/.Trash+
Also run:
+sudo chmod 700 ~/.Trash+
Now what is interesting to me is that you were unable to create the directory .Trash without using sudo. Could you also run:
+ls -ale ~/+
and copy/paste the output into a reply and post it up. I have a feeling you have an underlying permissions issue with your home directory.

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Trash empties immediately

Hi. Installed 10.5.1 a couple of weeks back and all was running well until this weekend. I encountered the 'access privledges' problem associated with the admin account. Reset permissions, reset admin, followed numerous bits of advice from discussions - all to no avail. I gave in and did an 'archive and install'.
Now my permissions and access seem to be working fine, but I'm unable to drop anything into the trash. Anything I attempt to drop in gets 'The item 'xxxxxx' will be deleted immediately. Are you sure you want to continue?' A continue response immediately deletes the item, a stop response simply leaves the item in its original location.
I use the trash as a 'buffer against my own stupidity when on a cleaning spree' and tend to delete items after two weeks or so of them residing there. Can't seem to find any related info in discussions. Am I missing something obvious here? Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.

That "delete immediately" dialog appears either when the file/folder you want to delete is on a remote volume, or when the Finder can't find (or get access to) an appropriate trash folder to put the file/folder in. When the Finder launches it will look for a trash in your home directory and on all locally mounted hard drives. If it doesn't find one, it will try to create one. If it can't create one it doesn't put up an error or any kind of indication to the user other then the "delete immediately" dialog when the user tries to delete one.
Since you mention that you had permission problems I'm going to assume that the problem is permissions related. While the XLab faq will help get around this problem if the problem is in fact with your home directories trash, it won't help if the problem is with the trash on another partition/volume. The other problem with the faq is that it is a work around, not a solution. Something got your trash into this funky state where the Finder could not create a new one or get access to the existing one. So the underlying permissions problem (probably on your home directory itself) will still persist and most likely bight you in the booty later on down the road.
So, lets do some debugging to find out the best solution and possibly fix the underlying problem... Is the problem with files/folders you try to delete from your home directory or boot volume or an external firewire/usb hard drive or partition?
If the problem is with files/folders in your home directory or boot volume, launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and type:
ls -lde ~/
ls -lde ~/.Trash
Then copy/paste the results into a reply and post it up.
If the problem is with files/folders on an external firewire/usb hard drive or partition, launch Terminal.app and type:
ls -lde /Volumes/<name of volume>/
sudo ls -lde /Volumes/<name of volume>/.Trashes
it will ask for your admin password, but when you type it it will not display any characters. This is normal, just make sure you type your admin password correctly. Copy/paste the results of those commands into a reply and post it up.

On my ipad mini, when I delete an email from the inbox (and it goes into Trash), it immediately deletes that email from the server (ATT/Yahoo). I've called support for both ATT and Apple and can't find a way to have the emails remain on the server.

On my iPad Mini, when I delete an email from the inbox (and it goes into Trash), it immediately deletes that email from the server (ATT/Yahoo). I've called support for both ATT and Apple and can't find a way to have the emails remain on the server.
My husband and I share an email address and if he misses a day checking email on his notebook, he doesn't receive the items that I have sent to Trash on my iPad Mini.
Appreciate suggestions.
[The curious thing is, if I "move" the deleted emails from Trash on my iPad Mini into the Inbox, I can go to my notebook, open my online email and they are back in my ATT/Yahoo Inbox.]

Is your Yahoo account set up as POP3 or IMAP?

The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access some of the items. ive moved these files from my sd card to the trash, when i take out the sd card the trash empties but then fills up when i put it back in, it wont empty.

The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items. ive moved these files from my sd card to the trash, when i take out the sd card the trash empties but then fills up when i put it back in, it wont empty.

In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-C, or select
Go ▹ Computer
from the menu bar. A window will open showing all mounted volumes. Select the one in question and open the Info window. What is shown as the Format in the General section?

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Help I have a student class of young teen filmmakers. Somebody! threw a movie in the trash & emptied it. also threw away iphoto images.
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http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

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I've searched for anyone else having this issue to no avail.
I have setup a folder called iPhone Trash on my Mail server. I assigned it on my iPhone as the trash can and set that IMAP account to NEVER delete messages. It properly drops the message in that box when I delete it and I can see it on my web-based mail client.
The issue is, every day or so, that box empties out. I haven't set any special rules on my server to delete messages from this box. I have the proper setting on the iPhone not to delete messages. Why is this trash emptying?
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Clay

I have exactly this problem. My IMAP trash folder used to have 1000+ messages in it (i'm lazy and never empty it). Within 1 week of purchasing my iPhone this was down to just 50 or so messages. I assumed I'd mistakenly hit empty on my computer at some point.
Today I've checked and trash only has 30 messages in, the oldest is from 1 week ago (5 days after I started using my iPhone). So to me it looks like the iPhone is somehow killing off messages in trash older than a week.
I access the same account on my PC using outlook 2007, and also over a web interface. I have done so for some time with no problems. I have to conclude it's my iPhone doing the deleting then. I have been running 1.1.2 ever since I got the phone. It is set up to never remove deleted messages (although it looks suspiciously like it's running with the "remove after 1 week" setting).
Not a major drama - I have deleted these messages after all! But an interesting quirk.

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I use a G4 QuickSilver 2002; run Tiger & Leopard. What is the fastest trash emptying software for Tiger & Leopard?

For reasons I do not understand, if I empty the trash can twice rapidly in a row, the second empty will be much slower than the first. I consider it a "feature".
Do you have mulitple partitions? Flash drives attached? You have a trash can per partition. The GUI combines these into one trash can.
I'd live with the slow empty.
There is the unix rm and rmdir commands. They'd be fast, but dangerous.

Ok. Add me to the moron list. I guess I am an over zealous trash emptier. Can I retrieve those images from the vastness by entering my time machine and restore the library from a previous date (when I wasn't a moron?)

Ok. Add me to the moron list. I guess I am an over zealous trash emptier. Can I retrieve those images by entering my time machine and restoring the Iphoto library from a previous date (when I wasn't a moron?)

Masters is where you want to be. They'll be in there in folders based on the date and time they were imported.
Regards
TD

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Still waiting for Appe to send a patch/update to fix the trash emptying issue on Mountain Lion. Since the last update it's been a nightmare.

Please explain what kind of a problem you are seeing with emptying Trash?
I see no problems with Trash using Mountain Lion whar so ever.
Allan

Logout, sleep, and secure trash empty

When securely emptying trash, the system goes to sleep, then tries to log out if the system is left unattended while trash is securely being emptied. When I go to wake the system, I have to log in (expected from reading other threads); however, the secure trash emptying prevented finder from quitting (the "Finder can't quit becaused some operations are in progress" and the "Trash" emptying window still active diolog window appears after relogging in) and the login items closed during the logout do not reopen after logging in. Energy saver is temporarily set for the system to not sleep due to a very large amount of files that need deleting.

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Why isn't storage increased if a video has been deleted and trash emptied?

This is very strange. Here are two screen shots from my computer, before and after deleting a 14 gB folder. Notice that the number in Used: is 14 gB less, as it should be. What numbers are you comparing?

Trash emptying

Hi All
I am a new Mac user i wonder if it possible to empty the trash can preeminently . i don't want to see my deleted files in trash can any more.
Thanks

When you use "Secure empty trash", if you have lots of items, or big files/pictures/movies, it can sometimes take 10-15 minutes. What is happening is that it is making those sectors on your hard drive available for new files/data immediately as opposed to just making them available t write over when it gets to it.
When I have trashed large files or pictures/movies and used secure empty trash, I have seen it take up to 30 minutes to complete that task. Give it time.
Adam

FCP video files in trash, trash emptied - any program that can recover them

Look, I know I am going to get nailed for posting this here, but it did happen as a result of FCP, so I was hoping someone would be able to help if they had a similar experience.
A project I completed was put in the trash because it was taking up space. That's normal. I emptied the trash and moved on to the next project, for which I had already digitized some video.
All kinds of files where showing up in my bins as disconnected. So I try to reconnect them and they are gone. Vanished.
I closed FCP and reopened. When I did, it looked liked I was starting from scratch - like I had just installed the program. I had to reopen all projects. A window came up and asked me to reset the scratch disks - to my GREAT surprise, the scratch disk it was looking for was the one for the previously trashed project. In other words, all that footage I had been digitizing had been in an identically-titled file in the folder of the TRASHED PROJECT.
SO - since the source disks have not been available to me for some time I was hoping a FCP user might know of a way to restore items that have been emptied from the trash. Is there such a program or are they, in fact, gone for good? And how did my scratch disk get magically reset? I have not set i since June 2005 when I first set it up.
Here's to hoping,
jf

I have a program called FileSalvage that has been able to recover inadvertently deleted files. Not all of them but the critical ones.
The program only recovers supported file types. Verify yours is in the list. If it isn't email them. They created some custom profiles for me when I needed to pull back some PC files that were stored on a Mac formatted network drive.
Recognize, the more you use the computer, the greater the likelihood you may overwrite some segment of a file thereby making it not recoverable. If the repository of the files in question is an external, disconnect it so you will do no further damage until you are ready to begin file recovery operations.
Good luck.
x

I do not have permission to delete my trash. It only shows trash when my external hard drive is connected. If it is not connected, the trash empties. What can I do to have the trash empty when the hard drive is connected?

When emptying my trash, I get "The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access some of the items." (I always have a hard drive connected and have just found out that if I disconnect the hard drive, none of that trash shows in the trash can....so there has to be some correlation with the hard drive. I have had my mac for a year, and never had this problem before though with the hard drive hooked up and all the trash being able to empty completely.) How can I get rid of the trash. FYI - I do not have the time machine hooked up, so I know that is not an issue. Thanks for any ideas to try!

Please look over XLab's Solving Trash Problems article for some hints. This is an excellent place to start.

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I've read the apple support article for emptying trash, changing file permissions, etc.; I've also tried searching the apple discussions... So I hope someone can help me here!
I recently deleted Adobe CS2 from my applications. A lot of files were dragged to the trash, and now there are two folders in the trash that won't delete.
They are:
1. a folder called "Adobe Illustrator CS2", containing a folder named "Legal", containing a file named "Tiếng Việt.html" (the name's characters seem to be from a different character set).
2. a folder called "Adobe Photoshop CS2", also containing a folder named "Legal", also containing a file named "Tiếng Việt.html" (same as above).
Here are the issues:
1. When I try to empty trash, nothing happens, these files just don't delete.
2. When I try to secure empty trash, I get the message: "The operation cannot be completed because the item 'legal' is in use."
3. I have permission to read and write the files and folders. Just to be sure, I tried "apply to enclosed items" in "get info", I get this error message: "The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -43). I can open the trash and look at the files. They are definitely there.
4. I read somewhere that because the names contain weird characters, they may not delete. When I try to rename the files, I get this error: "An unexpected error occurred (error code -43)."
5. I've tried "chflags -R nouchg " and "sudo chflags -R nouchg " in terminal, and I get errors saying the files do not exist (after I drag the folders into terminal.)
Help! What should I do to try and fix this? I have no idea what is going on!

The problem is the illegal characters in the file name. Try booting from your install disk, then go to the menu and select Disk Utility and run the First Aid-Repair Disk function. Restart, and you should be able to empty the Trash.
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