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 reformat the 1TB external drive and set it up again for Time Machine backups. Make sure you get any files off the 1TB drive before you reformat it as everything will be erased from the drive when it is formatted. Cheers, Ronni 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. > > 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, copy/paste the following command. > > sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/* > > 3 Press Return. > > 4 Type your Admin password when prompted, then press Return. > > Files in the Trash should now have been deleted. > > > > On 19/03/2010, at 12:31 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> 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 files. Is there a way of force trashing? or >>>> something like that? >>>> >>>> Thanks again >>>> Jon >>> >>> Hi Jon, >>> >>> Short answer … NO, depending on how many GBs you have in the trash it could >>> well take 24 hours to delete them all. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >> >> Sorry Jon, >> >> If I sounded a bit short and brutal before, I apologies. I should have >> explained how "Empty the Trash" works. >> First the computer has to “Prepare” to empty the trash. It slowly counts >> upwards — 100 thousand files to delete, 200 thousand, more. >> Go away from your computer for a few hours and when you return you will see >> counting upwards: 1 million, 1.1 million, more? >> >> I don't know of anyway to make your computer work any faster than it is >> capable of working. >> Certainly don't try to do anything on your computer while it is emptying all >> this trash. >> >> When you eventually get it emptied, go into Disk Utility and Repair >> Permissions. >> Then download & Install the OS X 10.5.8 Combo as per my previous >> instructions. >> >> 2. Once you get Time Machine sorted out, I would suggest you Repair >> Permissions on your MacPro, then go here to download >> Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update >> <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1058comboupdate.html> >> Then "Repair Permissions" after installing the Combo Update. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
