Re: Emptying trash of emails attachments

Stephen, I'm using v3.6 and not happening with me. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 On 20/11/2010, at 10:08 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi there folks, I notice that for the past few weeks if I drag an attachment from an email onto the desktop

Emptying trash of emails attachments

Hi there folks, I notice that for the past few weeks if I drag an attachment from an email onto the desktop, then move it to Trash, then try to "empty trash", it will not empty until I have closed Mail. Using latest Apple Mail. Is this something new in Mail and can I change it ? Regards, Ste

Re: Emptying Trash

Wow! that was so quick! fantastic. Okay now I will perform the steps you suggested. Thanks again Ronnie Kind regards Jon On 19/03/2010, at 12:40 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Jon, I don't know how you feel about using Terminal, you could try this to empty the trash perhaps a lot quicker.

Re: Emptying Trash

Hi again Jon, I just remembered you mentioned that you had removed the 1TB Drive from your computer, after dragging ?GBs of data from it into the Trash. I had temporarily forgotten this bit ;-) You will need to re-connect the 1TB external Drive until the trash empties. You then need to reform

Re: Emptying Trash

Hi Jon, I don't know how you feel about using Terminal, you could try this to empty the trash perhaps a lot quicker. Force the Trash to empty using Terminal Perform the following steps in the order specified: 1 Launch Terminal, located in Applications > Utilities. 2 At the Terminal prompt,

Re: Emptying Trash

On 19/03/2010, at 12:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > >> Thanks Ronni and Greg for your wisdom, I understand now. But, how can I now >> empty the trash without it taking forever? I have detached the 1Tb drive >> that the backups were on, and my trash still has >> Gb's worth of these deleted f

Re: Emptying Trash

> Thanks Ronni and Greg for your wisdom, I understand now. But, how can I now > empty the trash without it taking forever? I have detached the 1Tb drive that > the backups were on, and my trash still has > Gb's worth of these deleted files. Is there a way of force trashing? or > something lik

Re: Emptying Trash

Thanks Ronni and Greg for your wisdom, I understand now. But, how can I now empty the trash without it taking forever? I have detached the 1Tb drive that the backups were on, and my trash still has Gb's worth of these deleted files. Is there a way of force trashing? or something like that?

Re: Emptying Trash

Hello Jon For question 2. Have you tried downloading the 10.5.8 Combo Update and installing that manually. You can download it from here . You can still do an archive and install to save your important setti

Re: Emptying Trash

Hi John, 1. I am thinking you have tried to delete the 6 months of Time Machine Backups using Finder & dragging the files to the Trash. This is a real "BAD IDEA"! If you did do this as I suspect from your email below, Your Time Machine backups are now corrupted. You will need to reformat your

Re: Emptying Trash

Two items here that I could do with some help with: 1. How do you force the Trash to empty? I want to delete about 6 months of Time Machine backups, and of course there will be hundreds of files. It takes the Trash hours to even calculate the amount. So I am wondering if there is a way of fo

Re: Snow Leopard very slow emptying Trash !!

Thank you Ronni, I thought that was the problem, but could not find the option to change it. Kept clicking on the Apple logo (top left) instead of Finder preferences @#$%^ I deleted X-Plane 8 the other day and it had over 50,000 files (you can just imagine how long that took). All is sweet

Re: Snow Leopard very slow emptying Trash !!

On 06/09/2009, at 12:57 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how tediously slow it is now to empty the trash with Snow Leopard ? It is as though it only uses secure delete now, with no way of changing that. Hello Stephen, Check in Finder > Preferences -

Snow Leopard very slow emptying Trash !!

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how tediously slow it is now to empty the trash with Snow Leopard ? It is as though it only uses secure delete now, with no way of changing that. Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Emptying trash

I updated to 1.5.5 with no problems except the trash will not empty. Even after a restart it has frozen. I tried a ³secure delete² and it has found 825,635 items to delete. I has deleted a few of them but again has frozen. The time machine sees to be working frantically. Is this part of the problem