Why won't any of my files move to the trash?

Normally I'm able to throw items away, but recently when I tried to put an image file in the trash, a little box popped up with a progess bar that said "moving file to Trash", but twenty minutes later it still hadn't moved there. I tried to stop the action, but it wouldn't work. Then I decided to try emptying the trash and it wouldn't allow that. I figured that a restart would help, but now I can't log off or shut down my computer at all because the trash has an action in progress. It's not just that one file either, because now nothing will move to the trash. Any suggestions?

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 ▹ Force Quit
from the menu bar, then select Finder and press return. Try again.

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