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Trash is empty, but disk space is not recovered...
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I was running FCP and then the app froze up...
Forced quit...
And then I found out that I have lost a bunch of my free disk space...
Ran WhatSize, free app from MacUpdate... and found a 16.5 GB file named
.QT-0196-bedf9c45-bfffe964-00 copy copy
in the trash...
How do I delete the thing?
I open up the trash and there are no files to be seen..
now what...?
TIA..
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Posting Junkie
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If a filename begins with a dot like that, it's invisible to the Finder. That's why you're not seeing anything in the Trash. Just empty the Trash, and that should get rid of the file. If the Finder thinks the Trash is empty and won't let you empty it, make an empty folder and throw it in.
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thanks for the reply but when I open the trash there is nothing in it, when using finder...
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ookkk...
thanks for the hint/method...
I just created another file in the trash alongside that monster 16.5 GB file...
emptied the trash and now I got my space back...
thanks again..
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Originally Posted by shabbasuraj
I just created another file in the trash alongside that monster 16.5 GB file...
emptied the trash and now I got my space back...
Ha, that's what I would call a bug!
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Secure Empty Trash (under the Finder menu) will not only get rid of files you can't see, it will recover the space taken up by recently deleted files too.
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and take a LONG time if there is 16gb of files in it. 
I did it on accedent once with a 200mb or so file while playing wow... man. Not only does it take awhile, it is CPU and/or Disk intensive.
-Owl
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