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Can't empty trash issue
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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I get so much "can't complete because...is in use... that I'm almost never able to empty trash."
Now if I quit all apps everything is fine, but that's quite a hassle to empty your trash.
any ideas? thanks
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Figure out which application is locking the file in your trash and quit that application only. Media players are the usual culprit for me.
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thanks, says picture 1 is in use. But what is in use? I have no images up. So is this a glitch in the OS?
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I've had this problem only in 10.4.4. If a quicktime movie is opened in quicktime, then the movie is closed and the movie is trashed (but not quitting QT), the trash can't be emptied until QT is quit. Same with text in TextEdit. Gotta be a bug, err, feature.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Or you can always just hold option while you empty the Trash... it deletes anything, whether it's in use or locked or anything like that.
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Originally Posted by kevs
thanks, says picture 1 is in use. But what is in use? I have no images up. So is this a glitch in the OS?
This is also a know bug in Preview. It caches images you open. If it hasn't cleared this, Trash still thinks the image is in use. Quitting Preview will then permit you to empty the Trash.
If not Preview, then you can find out what app or process appears to have a hold on the file in the Trash:
1. Open the Trash
2. Launch Terminal, located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
3. Position the Terminal and Trash windows so they do not overlap.
4. At the Terminal prompt, type lsof followed by a single space, but do not press Return yet.
5. Drag and drop the file cited in the alert dialog from the Trash to the Terminal window. The path to the file appears after the command typed in step 4.
6. Press Return. You will receive output in Terminal listing the file you dropped on the Terminal window in step 5. The process or application that is considered to have the file "in use" is listed under the column labeled "COMMAND." Quit that application or, using Activity Monitor, terminate that process.
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