[HOWTO] - Empty the trash of stubborn items

[g3ski]

This thread has been really helpful. Someone in my office ran into this issue and it caused a lot of problems. Going into the terminal helped him dump 4GB from the trash.

But why should this happen at all? It's a really serious problem if a user has to use the terminal and scripts to empty the trash.

just 2¢
jd

[xoot]

Originally posted by bunski71
But why should this happen at all? It's a really serious problem if a user has to use the terminal and scripts to empty the trash.

just 2¢
jd

In my previous post I explained a GUI way to empty the trash of stubborn items (BATCHmod). Why should you have to use the Terminal?

[xoot]

But I agree that you shouldn't use a separate program to empty the trash of stubborn items. I think OS X should have that functionality.

[g3ski]

yes, BATCHmod is a great work around, much better than the terminal solution we used originally.....now when will Apple realize that we need to empty to the trash ; )

As I put down Apple for such a glaring oversight even one year after the release of X, I must applaud the Mac and Unix community for coming together and creating so many solutions to X problems so quickly. For almomst every issue in X, someone finds a workaround, creates a script, or writes an app to help the rest of us. FruitMenu and BATCHmod are great examples.

jd

[caramelApple]

This has been soo helpful! Thanks!

Much Love,

Rita


The Mac Geekette

[gatorparrots]

To avoid the cosmetic glitch of the trash appearing full after using testuser's script, you should add this line to the end of the script:
osascript -l AppleScript -e 'tell Application "Finder" to empty'

Also, you may want to check out his revised version of the script here (since it is much improved): http://www.macfora.com/forums/showth...&threadid=6408

[g3ski]

An awesome utility, everyone should get is Xupport. It give a nice clean UI for many task that would normally require gettin command line jiggy. It of course has empty trash regardless of privis as one of it's features.