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    Cannot Empty Trash

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ichiban06, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. ichiban06

    ichiban06 Notebook Guru

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    there seems to be an invisible file in the trash been as it says "1 Item" but i can't see it, when I empty the bin it makes the sound but bin icon shows there's still trash? when i boot into Win7 via vmware the file disappears and the bin icon shows it emptied but when vmware is shutdown it reappears?

    Can anyone help.

    Thanks
     
    ichiban06, Jul 1, 2009
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  2. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    Restart your computer that usually solves that problem.
     
    MKang25, Jul 1, 2009
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  3. ichiban06

    ichiban06 Notebook Guru

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    it didn't help :(
     
    ichiban06, Jul 1, 2009
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  4. Soloman

    Soloman Notebook Consultant

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    Hold down the option key as you click on the trash bin and keep it down when you click empty trash.
     
    Soloman, Jul 1, 2009
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  5. ichiban06

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    still there :(
     
    ichiban06, Jul 1, 2009
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  6. ichiban06

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    hmm, i just changed the view setting to List and it now shows the file. The file is a pdf manual for my camera but the size says Zero KB.
     
    ichiban06, Jul 1, 2009
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    Empty again. Hold the option key down while selecting the empty trash again.
     
    Soloman, Jul 1, 2009
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    problem solved, the windows partition was corrupted a scandisk fixed the problem and when I went back into OSX I emptied the trash and the file was removed :)
     
    ichiban06, Jul 1, 2009
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