Re: Help! - can no longer empty my trash!

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
If you are deleting a time machine backup there can be hundreds of thousands of files in there. That can take some time. CB Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi and thanks for this. I'm trying Trashit now to see what it does. It takes a looong while to run, let's see what will be the result once fin

Re: Help! - can no longer empty my trash!

2010-01-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi and thanks for this. I'm trying Trashit now to see what it does. It takes a looong while to run, let's see what will be the result once finished. I'll keep you posted. /Krister 5 jan 2010 kl. 18.51 skrev Chris Blouch: > There was a discussion thread about this where apparently manually t

Re: Help! - can no longer empty my trash!

2010-01-05 Thread carlene knight
when in the folder you can try command a to select all and then hit the delete key. I've done this when that error popped up. Hope that helps. On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:47 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi there. > I've got quite many objects in my trash that i want to get rid of, amongst > those o

Re: Help! - can no longer empty my trash!

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Blouch
There was a discussion thread about this where apparently manually trashing time machine backup files causes this error: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2138034&tstart=30 seems like several folks had success using Trashit http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8214 to resolve

Re: Help! - can no longer empty my trash!

2010-01-05 Thread Krister Ekstrom
5 jan 2010 kl. 14.30 skrev Scott Howell: > Have you logged out and back in prior to attempting to delete the files? No, would that help? I have turned off the Mac and then turned it on again but to no avail. Will try what you suggest. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subs

Re: Help! - can no longer empty my trash!

2010-01-05 Thread Scott Howell
Have you logged out and back in prior to attempting to delete the files? On Jan 5, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi there. > I've got quite many objects in my trash that i want to get rid of, amongst > those old time machine objects and such. The reason why i want to erase all > thi