Re: having problems removing items from the trash

2014-09-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sometimes holding down the option key (in addition to doing command-shift-delete) will tell it to delete otherwise locked stuff. Give that a whirl and see if it clears anything up. CB On 9/6/14, 2:54 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote: yep that was one of the first things I tried

Re: having problems removing items from the trash

2014-09-10 Thread Kayaker
Hi, I've had a slew of troubles with the trash over the years. In some cases, the Finder get's very confused. I've been able to reproduce the problem with certain applications that do a self update. The older application in the trash can never be deleted. The simple solution I've found is to

having problems removing items from the trash

2014-09-06 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
Hello I am running in to a odd issue, when I go to empty the trash I have a choice to remove unlocked items how ever when I go to do that it can't remove it and claims its being used by another program when it isn't how do I force these items out of the trash? Hank -- You received this

Re: having problems removing items from the trash

2014-09-06 Thread Alex Hall
It seems basic, but have you restarted the Mac yet? Something similar happened to me, and a simple restart cleared it right up. On Sep 6, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I am running in to a odd issue, when I go to empty the trash I

Re: having problems removing items from the trash

2014-09-06 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
yep that was one of the first things I tried On 9/6/2014 11:36 AM, Alex Hall wrote: It seems basic, but have you restarted the Mac yet? Something similar happened to me, and a simple restart cleared it right up. On Sep 6, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona