Trash problems

Hi,
i deleted an old copy of Iphoto and moved to the trash.
When trying to erase from the trash...it states that certain items are in use and will not delete.
I have tried from finder to secure delete and this does not work either.
Any suggestions please?

Keep the drive mounted. Reboot and see if you can emptry the trash then.
If that doesn't work try Trash It!.
Some info on trash problems: The X Lab: Solving Trash Problems

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I have Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro with two hard disks. I have files on the secondary disk that will not delete. It gives an error code of 1407. When I check file information, the file is locked. I unlock it but it does not stay unlocked. Any suggestions?

See if these helps:
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The X Lab: Solving Trash Problems
And I assume you meant error -1407 (Expected a folder, got a file).

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I recently upgarded to 10.6.8 and all has been well. But now I am having a Trash problem. I can't drag to trash. A list comes up, showing 'preparing to move to Trash', with a blue and white flashing line, apparently for every item.. But it has been running every time the machine is awake, since yesterday. There is no way to delete it and, in the meantime, I can't put things in the trash or empty it. It seems to be stuck in 'preparing' mode. Can anyone tell me how to deal with this? Please?

Sorry, I should have read the side bars first, but didn't notice them. The old eyes don't work as well anymore. Anyway, I resolved the problem by following previous advice and apologize for taking up your time to read my problem. Thanks!

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"The item "FB814B00" can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted".
I have two such files on my Desktop, different only in the name number:
I have been using MS Office Excel but Excel is presently not running. When I drag the files to the Trash, a "+" sign attaches to the icon, indicating that it is about to be copied somewhere. If I Double-click on it, nothing happens. I can drag other files to the Trash.
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" The operation can’t be completed because the item “P6290780.JPG” is in use." Stop Continue. Pressing "Continue seems to do nothing. I have searched for “P6290780.JPG” using Spotlight and have four of them: Two on my Carbon Copy cloner bootable Backup external HD; one in iPhoto as a
Thumbnail and one in iPhoto in a folder called "Masters". I cannot find an open opy of that file.
Now, I have just noticed that there is only one file in the Trash. It is “P6290780.JPG”. Spotlight did not find it.
This seems to be a Mac problem rather than an MS Office problem.
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Solved both problems by Restarting the iMac.
I have had a Mac since the dark days of 1996 and an Apple speaker at a big London exhibition advised restarting the machine about three times per day. This was, as I remember, to clear out accumulated corruption etc. As a result, I did that (but every two days). When I got my new iMac (mid 2011) and Lion 7.1 I thought that those days were gone, but presumably not. (My Mac had been running for about 7 days since the last restart.)

Many Trash problems with leopard and no fix

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I posted that my trash is not emptying under any circumstances no one seemed to know how to solve this. i noticed that there are several people with trash issues (some not emptying until restart, others cant see the trash) i just hope that apple fix this with an update or something. meanwhile i am using a program called onyx to empty my trash and it works fine.

I am not an expert on this but i had a problem similar to what you experienced. I deleted tens of thousands of stuff at one go and it got stuck at one point. But the difference between your experience and mine is that it gave a dialog saying it cant find the file xxx to delete and also that i should click continue to proceed further. needless to say, i had to do that twenty to thirty times with each tiem a dialog popping up with same message but different file. when done, it seems to have deleted all other files except the ones it showed in dialog box. So i opened trash again and option clicked it and everything went away without any dialogs. hope that helps.
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Trying to do a major editing job and Bridge wont let me trash files. Can't seem to find anything relevent in Help and a search here came up with nothing. Keep getting a popup stating I don't have sufficient privleges. Have no idea what this is about. More than a mere annoyance.
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After checking 'get info' for
both image files and the disc, I noticed that under Sharing and Permissions
for the disc that there are two items, Test and Everyone, listed under You
have custom access. Test has 'read and write' listed and Everyone has 'read
only'. Not sure just what that means, as it's nothing I had set up.
If I compare this with my set up and choose the disk where the system is
installed on it shows system and admin as read and write and everyone only
read. (and I have also a stand alone with me as administrator)
When in the user section (all content from my user folder on this disk) it
shows me as user for read and write and both staff and everyone as only
read.
If you have a user account created for testing and called that test and this
shows only test it seems to me that you are logged in under this user
account.
In the system preferences under the tab Accounts you can check this and also
change it if you have admin rights (as you stated to have that should not
give any problems).
For the image file 'get info', under Sharing and Permissions, it shows 'you
can only read' - Test and Everyone.
Meaning you have no rights to change or trash that file.
In File Sharing in System Preferances, everything is unchecked.
To my knowledge checking file sharing on and adding other user could give
you access to those files. However, as administrator and only user it would
be best to operate from your own user account and after heaving logged in
from that account check if you are able to see all read and write
permissions for the files.
Not sure if this has a bearing on the problem, but the image files are on a
sperate drive from the system and Bridge drive. Just for grins I turned on
File Sharing in 'Sharing' Preferences. No change.
I assume you also did a get info for that disk because if the files are on
that disk it should say that you have read and write permissions and that
should also be for the files on it.
Sorry for the long winded post. I'm just starting Light Room, and am in the
process of revamping my workflow to try and get better control over my files.
Pretty ugly mess after 10+ years of bad and sloppy habits.
I wonder if you are able to trash the files in Lightroom because that would
be a surprise for me. Still think it is a user account and read write
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Hello !
I have a problem when I try to delete a single item located in my trash. I got an error code -36.
I give you a picture of the trash just below, then you see what's in there.
I tried the secured deleting of the trash, but now way...
I tried "Trash it" and it was ok for trashing everything else but the directory "bundles (désactivés)" below.
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Hi !
Sorry, but that didn't help me at all. Tried all the techniques described in the document you suggested to me.
I thought the "sudo rm -ri ~/.Trash" would give me the solution...
Any clue ? The file and the directory that is in my trash is something that has to do with the mail application.
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I'm using Mail with my .Mac account and after opening mail this morning, I tried to delete an email message and found that my TRASH had vanished! There is no TRASH folder on the left hand pane. I don't know where my deleted mesage has gone as it would normlly be stored in TRASH.
I've checked in PREFERENCES>ACCOUNTS>MAILBOX BEHAVIORS and "move deleted messages to the TRASH mailbox" is checked.
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Hi Ben.
I don’t really know what’s going on here, but this being a .Mac account, re-creating com.apple.mail.plist would be painless, and hence worth a try.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
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1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to solve the problem. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
4. Open Mail. You’ll have to set up your non-.Mac accounts from scratch all over again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done.
You’ll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
5. As a side effect of re-creating com.apple.mail.plist, Mail might rename Outbox (which is where messages waiting to be sent are stored) to Delivered. The name of that mailbox is actually a misnomer, as it would contain messages (if any) that couldn’t be delivered for some reason. You can delete that mailbox if you wish.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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I have no problem emptying the trash from either the Finder menu or dock. When you right-click on the dock trash, is the "empty trash" item in the contextual menu greyed-out?
The 10.4.8 update (I used the combined update rather than the delta version) ran smoothly. I have not seen any problems yet with my system.
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Trash Problems - A solution?

I am not very knowledgeable about the Mac and recently installed Leopard. I have been having difficulty removing Camera Raw files from my computer. When I would go to the trash bin and click on empty the trash bin, I would get this query "remove trash securely" which I had never seen before, nor which I understood its significance. Anyways it didn't matter how many times I clicked on this the program would get locked up and I would have to force quit. I also noticed problems with other files which would take a long time to remove. Last night for some mysterious reason the files were removed and they reappeared again when I came back to the computer this morning.
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Emptying Trash Problem

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HOld down the OPTION key when emptying trash. If they are still there, use the Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
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I have been having trouble with this. After I select the empty trash bin,
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to provide some tips on how I can empty them. Thanks!

Flag ehm so you can find them again and restore them to the library and delete in batches of 100 or so - iphoto does not handle large deletes at one time
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Suddenly today I get a dialog box stating "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this," whenever I attempt to drag a file from the desktop into the Trash on the dock. How can I stop this and return to a normal function of dragging desktop files into the trash? Thanks in advance.

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