[Cei]

I use my PowerBook as a mobile storage for my photography - at a recent wedding shoot over 19Gb of shots were taken, and placed in a folder.

Eventually, it came to the time to delete these files to recover the disk space. I moved the folder to the trash, and then went to empty it. Ctl-clicking on the trash opens up the contextual menu, but you cannot select any of the options on there (you move the mouse over and they simply don't highlight). Ontop of that, the dock jams in this position until you click on the apple logo top left.

So, how can I empty my trash? It won't let me do it through the GUI, is there a Terminal command I can use?


Running Tiger by the way, though that won't make much difference!

[naphtali]

If the items are already in the Trash, with Finder as the active application (just click on the desktop), press Command (the Apple) + Shift + Delete, which is the keyboard shortcut for emptying the trash.

Alternatively, with Finder active, you can click on Finder -> Empty Trash or Secure Empty Trash (though I imagine the latter would be slower with your number of files.

I am not too savvy with the Terminal, so I'll leave that to someone else who's more experienced.

Hope this helps!

[ibook_steve]

You can also just try rebooting or trashing the Dock preferences.

Steve

[kwiens]

Open a new terminal window.
Type: cd .Trash
Type: rm -rf *

If you get any permission errors, then type: sudo rm -rf *
That runs the command as root. Be *very* careful, however. That command will remove every file in the current directory without asking you.

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