[kOnshii]

Gooday, actually its a VERY bad day.

I reformatted my computer, and then installed the system OS X.1.5.

backuped some applications and system updates on a second drive. I then coppied some of these updates to my primary drive and deleted the backed up ones.

After that i can no longer empty my trash. I empty the trash and it counts up to 2000files, and then says i don't have enough privileges to empty the trash. It is driving me stupid, i got jpegs, apps, mov, and temp folders acummulating that just won't delete.

I hold down option, nothing!

Is there some terminal command out there, or is there some secret way of becoming this root user that gives me enough previleges to delete the trash.

PLEASE HELP ME.........

going insane

[Scarpa]

I don't know how to override the Trash and delete the contents of it.

I do recommend that you remove any files from the trash that are copies of system or application files. The OS or an application may be using a file in the trash, preventing you from deleting it.

[pmcd]

There are many ways of doing this but by far the easiest is to get a little utility called Trash It! (see versiontracker.com or macupdate.com). I have yet to encounter a situation where it won't empty the trash.

philip

[kOnshii]

thanx but the thing is i can't take it out of the trash either, and its about 4 gigs worth of stuff in there.

i will try to find this TRASH IT util, i hope the works.