recovering from trash - won't drag

[glennsnoise]

Hi. In an attempt to delete duplicate files from my iTunes folder, I accidentally deleted the entire contents of the folder into the Trash. I have NOT emptied the trash. I can open the trash can and see all of my files there.

Here's the problem: I click on the files (one or multiple) and try to drag them to another location. They won't drag. I've tried several times. Can someone help me with this?

Thank you.

 

[michaelsanford]

Go into Applications > Utilities and open Terminal.

Copy and paste the following into the window and hit enter:

mv ~/.Trash/* ~/Desktop/

This will move (the linux command 'mv') files from your trash to your Desktop. If you have an error with that, type this and let it finish (might take a while, up to 20 minutes)

diskutil repairPermissions /

NB. That second one is probably a good one to run anyway, since it's part of the maintenance of the Macintosh that is not automatically performed. It might output a whole bunch of stuff, but you can safely ignore it. Just let it finish and quit.