When trying to empty the trash on my May 2011 iMac 27 inch OS 10.7.3 I get error code -50. Any suggestions?

when trying to empty the trash on my May 2011 iMac 27 inch OS 10.7.3 I get error code -50. Any suggestions?

Reboot and try again. If that fails, back up all data, then boot from your recovery partition (command-R at startup), launch Disk Utility, select your startup volume, and run Repair Disk (not Repair Permissions.) If any problems are found, repeat. Then reboot as usual.

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s

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