Re: I emptied the trash by unlocking the backup folder

2016-07-16 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Josh, I expect that the important information in that chflags command is actually the nouchg part. In most unix file manipulation commands like chmod, cp a dash capital R (-R) is used to say do this command recursively. In other words don't just change this folder but change every file and

I emptied the trash by unlocking the backup folder

2016-07-16 Thread Joshua Tubbs
Hi everyone, So I figured out the problem regarding the trash and my Time Machine backup. The solution is pretty simple actually, at least for me. Setting chflags to -R on any file will unlock it if it happens to be locked. So, in terminal, you can do: chflags -R nouchg To have the path of the