Trash won't empty after deleting inprogress Time Machine backup

I deleted an in-progress Time Machine backup. It is in my trash and every time I try to delete it, it prepares 270,000 files for deletion, then it just hangs and does nothing. I've tried ~ sudo rm -rf /.Trashes to no avail. I've also tried to put it back; however, there isn't an option aside from coping. I am at a loss. Aside from reformatting the drive 700GB, I'm not finding any other solution. I really don't want to reformat and rebuild the backup, that is a scary process and would like to avoid that if possible. Any idea's would be much appreciated. Thanks
-Justin

jthedwalker wrote:
I've tried ~ sudo rm -rf /.Trashes to no avail.
What does that mean? Nothing happened, or it took a long time and didn't seem to be doing anything?
Did you cd to your TM volume first?
I've also tried to put it back
No; Time Machine backups are full of hard links. Moving things out of the Backups.backupdb folder destroys them, and they can't be rebuilt.
The remaining backups may be corrupted. If you do manage to empty the trash, do a +*Repair Disk+* on them.
As Kappy says, if you can't get rm to work, your only option is to erase.
By the way, you shouldn't have to delete TM backups, but if you do, use Time Machine. See #12 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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