Force Empty the Trash
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Kimberly in mac
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If you have a lot of items in the trash that you know you want to get rid of, here are a few quick ways to empty your trash on a Mac:
Method 1. Just to empty without any locked items in the trash. If there are locked items you will get a pop-up notice. – shift command delete (and then hit ok)
Method 2: When you do have locked items in the trash, and to avoid any pop-up messages telling what you already know — how to force empty the trash – shift command option delete
or if you enjoy a little Terminal moment as much as the next gal or guy — Open up Terminal (located in your Applications folder, under utilities)
then enter either of these (the first one is used when no locked items in trash, and the second one is when you have locked items in the trash)
Method 3:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
or Method 4:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
and then click enter — all done. Pretty sweet a few methods you may or may not have come across in your Mac travels.
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