[kevs]

One item, a jpeg, wont delete from Trash, no apps are open, and the jpeg wont drag to desktop. What is with trash? you would think by 2006 you would not have any issue emptying trash?

10.4.6

[rickey939]

You can "Force Empty" the trash using a plethora of various utilities found on MacUpdate.

[jmiddel]

Do you get a message that says why the item cannot be deleted? Did you try secure empty trash from the Finder menu? When you ctrl click on the offending item and Get Info, under Ownership and permissions, Details, is the item locked or read only? Try unlocking. Sometimes I have had to log out and back in to liberate the resistant item, a few times only after a restart would it let itself be trashed. No apps being open does not always mean that the link between the app and the file has been severed, this I have encountered a few times and it is really annoying, even multiple openings and quittings or force quittings, don't do the trick.
Yeah, the good OS is very protective of us users, sometimes to excess, but the basic idea is to make sure we don't loose something valuable.

[Don Pickett]

You can also try

Code:
sudo rm * ~/.Trash

from the Terminal.

[kevs]

thanks, just tried secure trash, no go.
read and write, unlocked.
good info jmiddel and other.
This is of no urgency, so I probably just let it set there for while, until something kicks it out.

[vinster]

Originally Posted by Don Pickett

You can also try

Code:
sudo rm * ~/.Trash

from the Terminal.

Be careful with this! I suggest changing into the various /.Trash directories and 501 subdirectories if necessary and then using rm * (try w/o sudo first to see if that works).