Lion - Trash won't empty

Barks · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:03

Anyone else had this problem?

There's about 4 images in the Trash and it just hangs when I try and empty it.

Secure empty trash is not selected. I've left it for about 35 minutes and it just sits there and doesn't do anything.

Barks · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:03

Also tried:

sudo rm -R ~/.trash

After I enter my password it also does nothing.

Lion Cache Cleaner 'Force Empty Trash' also fails to do anything.

scrlk · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:12

Well that sounds rubbish.

(I'll get my coat)

Deleted member 77746 · 31 Jul 2011 at 19:37

You have rebooted Lion first ??? and then tried again?

Barks · 1 Aug 2011 at 00:48

Seems to have sorted itself after a few reboots. No idea what was up with it earlier the whole computer was being ridiculously slow and unresponsive.

^187 · 2 Aug 2011 at 13:44

I had similar issues a while back, it was always image files that refused to delete from the trash, due to 'being in use'

It turned out to be Twitter for mac that was causing the issues. If I grabbed an image from say skitch or an image file I have dragged from a webpage to the desktop to post to twitter.

Quitting Tweetie and then emptying the Trash was the only way around it.

Seems you have sorted it now, but this is my only experience of the trash not emptying before.

C.