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
Esther, you're a jewel. I've often wondered why apple doesn't
provide the functionality of this go to shell app. I've often
thought about building such an app for myself, and now I see it's
done. Great work here, I'll definitely be adding this one to my
toolbox.
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Hi Eric, Travis, and Others,
How about the following way of checking whether Eric's problem file is still in
the .Trashes folder on his Time Machine volume? Terminal's command line
interface lets you do a lot more work with your system with precision, but many
people aren't comfortable with it,
I have to agree with Esther and others in this thread. It's possible
you've already solved your problem, and just don't realize it.
On the other hand, Esther's post on how to get the file to go away
permanently is quite thorough, and should work if all is setup as
advertised on your system.
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
Can you empty trash in a test account? I know there probably something you can
reset in your real account but I forgot what it was. I saw a discussion about
this months ago but like a dumb person I forgot to keep the thing. lol!
good luck.
On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Eric Caron wrote:
> Hell
Hello helpful listers,
For several months now I have not been able to get my trash to
completely empty. Now things seem even worse. When I now attempt to empty my
trash I'm asked if I want to delete unlocked or all items. No matter what I
choose the next message that comes up is,
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