I was not looking to free space as that backup drive s three TB. I was just thinking to get rid of the back up from my old computer,as I now have a new one. Right now my iMac has been chugging along for over 24 hours trying to delete what is in the trash,and I am staying off the computer?
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On Oct 27, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io <
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If it's to free space, it uses the same whether it's in the Trash or where it was originally.?
I was going to suggest a Unix (Terminal) command, but I suspect that is what 'Trash It' uses.
If you want to try it anyway, be very careful in getting it right. Start up Applications > Utilities > Terminal and copy-paste this
rm -rf ~/.Trash/?
then press enter.?
If you get a permissions failure, try
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/
which?will prompt you for your password.?
It will not be instant?as there must be a huge number of files in there, so be patient.?
There *is* an option for Trash to empty automatically, but you need to select?it in Finder > Preferences > Advanced. That could be long wait, though. ;)
BTW how much free space do you have?
Otto
It is now located in my trash on my new iMac. I can not get it out of the trash. I have tried everything for 3 days.I let the computer run empty the trash since yesterday, and it only get up to a little under 400k and then stops. I tried Trash it, doesn¡¯t work, I trued going in to each file and doing a delete immediately. I had thought that if there were an option to put it back to the drive from which I had deleted it, then at least the trash would be empty and I could use it for whatever.?
I did read somewhere that things can only stay in the trash for 30 day. If that is a fact, I only have 27 days to go. I know now I should have never tried to delete the back up from my old Mac Pro, But it is done, and now I have to try a way to ?either get rid of it, or get it back and let the os get rid of it as the back up disk gets full.?
I also some some way to go into the registry, But I am not about to do that.? I had a bad experience with that once, and am not about to try it again.?
If I can¡¯t fix this, I guess I will have to call Apple care and see what they can do
