Hello Esther and others,
Wow! Esther, I feel like I've learned a ton of information from this
problem. Thanks to your post I've now used terminal and am less intimidated by
it. In some ways it does bring back memories of a time when I was a pretty
good DOS user.
I followed your comma
Hi Eric,
This is going to take a little testing on my part, and reviewing the
Preferences setups you should have for Terminal to hear things spoken with
VoiceOver, but first let me ask whether your TIme Machine disk is currently
mounted. If, under Finder, you can use the Command-Shift-G "Go to
Acutlaly if you hit enter and no prompt comes up you usually did it correctly.
Try em[tying yoru trash to see if it solved the problem. I suck at using the
terminal but all it is is something like a dos prompt. if you can think of it
that way you should be fine.
Take care.
On Nov 13, 2011, at
Esther and others,
I've never liked the idea of using something called "Terminal" It sounds way
too final and almost deadly! But despite my fear I'm willing to try to do this
as I'm sure Esther has discovered my problem.
I have tried to follow the directions but as this is my first Terminal
Hi Eric,
>From the file name you mentioned in your system message, the problematic file
>is a Time Machine backup file that was moved to the trash in the middle of its
>backup activity, and the reason that you are having difficulty getting your
>Trash to empty completely is that your Mac consid
