How to force empty trash

Tue, Jun 30, 2009

OSX

Ever get the (filename) is in use when trying to empty the trash on your mac? This can happen when you uninstall a app before rebooting, well if you have this problem then this post if for you.

The simple way.

This is the most easy way to fix it simply hold option down when pressing empty.

trash

The "Other" way

This is just as simple.. just if you know what your doing simply type rm -rf ~/.Trash/* into Terminal then enter

terminal

Hope this helps!

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