When I empty my trash

I get "The operation can’t be completed because the item “.fseventsd” is in use."

OK - this is about this last thing that I know to attempt...
Download the free Onyx utility. Quit all other applications and open Onyx. CANCEL the two dialog boxes that you will receive about checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of your boot volume and the one about verifying the volume. You'll now see the main Onyx window. Select the "Cleaning" tab and then select Trash. Select Delete and then click on the Execute button. See if that works.
Clinton

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  • I get the beach ball of death when I empty the trash on my new 10.7 Mac. Even in safe mode

    When I attempt to empty the trash I get the progress bar with message on how many items to empty and I get the barber pole lines but it never really starts to empty. I just have the beach ball of death. Everything else on the MacBook Pro comes to a halt (if you wait about 5 minutes an app selected to quit might quit). You can click on the X to stop emptying trash and it says it's stopping but it keeps showing the marching progress bar and the beach ball keeps spinning.
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    I had the same problem.
    Your advice solved my problem.
    Thank you for the original post. And the two updates.
    I nominate you for "15 Points." 5 for your helpful answer. And another 10 because it was correct.
    Apple's Support Community needs more people like you.
    If I had posted a question and no one answered, I'd say, "the **** with it."
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  • When I empty my trash, my memory goes down?

    So,
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    CrownJules:
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  • HELP!!! When I empty my trash, my MBP will shut down automatically and a screen saying press a button to restart your MBP.. What's wrong with it?

    As stated above, I don't know what to do, but there's an error report that popped up... Anyone can help? =)
    Interval Since Last Panic Report:  11 sec
    Panics Since Last Report:          2
    Anonymous UUID:                    F5A6263F-7726-ACD7-A59A-817B526A9AA7
    Tue Jul  9 19:37:35 2013
    panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff802a4b8655): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7fac20d5db, type 14=page fault, registers:
    CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000040, CR3: 0x0000000074b13019, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
    RAX: 0xffffff80a99ed1a4, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0xffffff8038440004
    RSP: 0xffffff80a8e4b800, RBP: 0xffffff80a8e4b850, RSI: 0xffffff80a99ed194, RDI: 0xffffff8035fb4404
    R8:  0xffffff803c760f64, R9:  0xffffff803c760f64, R10: 0xffffff802aa65570, R11: 0xffffff80371ca680
    R12: 0xffffff803a295104, R13: 0xffffff8035fb4404, R14: 0x0000000000000000, R15: 0xffffff8038440004
    RFL: 0x0000000000010297, RIP: 0xffffff7fac20d5db, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
    Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000040, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2
    Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff80a8e4b4a0 : 0xffffff802a41d626
    0xffffff80a8e4b510 : 0xffffff802a4b8655
    0xffffff80a8e4b6e0 : 0xffffff802a4ce17d
    0xffffff80a8e4b700 : 0xffffff7fac20d5db
    0xffffff80a8e4b850 : 0xffffff7fac209d70
    0xffffff80a8e4b8a0 : 0xffffff7fac1fe4f3
    0xffffff80a8e4bb30 : 0xffffff7fac202665
    0xffffff80a8e4bb70 : 0xffffff802a513089
    0xffffff80a8e4bbd0 : 0xffffff802a5010dd
    0xffffff80a8e4bf50 : 0xffffff802a7e16aa
    0xffffff80a8e4bfb0 : 0xffffff802a4ce9c3
          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
             com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs(82.0)[D28EF3F5-8EBC-709B-594E-B32FFC8C200 2]@0xffffff7fac1fc000->0xffffff7fac23ffff
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Locum
    Mac OS version:
    12E55
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May  1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: 896CB1E3-AB79-3DF1-B595-549DFFDF3D36
    Kernel slide:     0x000000002a200000
    Kernel text base: 0xffffff802a400000
    System model name: MacBookPro8,1 (Mac-94245B3640C91C81)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 139233137230
    last loaded kext at 99385836295: com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs          82 (addr 0xffffff7fac1fc000, size 278528)
    loaded kexts:
    com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs          82
    net.telestream.driver.TelestreamAudio          1.0.5
    com.LivestreamProcaster.driver.ProcasterAudioRedirector          2.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.5d0
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          4.1.4f2
    com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver          1.0.2d2
    com.apple.driver.AGPM          100.12.87
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver          122
    com.apple.filesystems.autofs          3.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver          2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.60
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.10
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver          2.3.7fc4
    com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet          1.0.0d1
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothUSBDFU          4.1.4f2
    com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport          4.1.4f2
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD3000Graphics          8.1.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight          170.2.5
    com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          7.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC          1.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU          2.0.3d0
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB          8.1.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.6.0
    com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl          3.4

    com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs is causing this panic. Contact paragon-software.com for an updated version of their software.

  • I have sent a file to the trash bin. When I come to empty the trash bin everything goes out except this one particular file and I get a note saying the file is 'in use' but it is not. How can I delete this file from trash?

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    I deleted unwanted photos from my iPhoto library, emptied iPhoto trash & Finder trash... this did not free up disk space. please help!
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