Re: sudo - Force Empty Trash
Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.macosx.general |
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> On May 23, 2019, at 21:06, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > I recently tried deleting an old copy of Safari Tech Preview and have some items in the trash that refuse to delete. When deleting I get the msg that the items below are in use: > > /private/var/folders/l_/v64sxdkd6fn8xb9xdmb6w5j40000gn/0 > > com.apple.SafariTechnologyPreview > > I’ve logged out and back in again as well as doing a restart but whatever the linked process it must respawn. Activity monitor doesn’t offer any clues as to which process is causing the problem. > > The only way I can think of emptying the trash is via terminal and sudo. Could someone tell me the commands for using sudo to force empty the trash. I’m running in a user account Enter .Trash and type "sudo rm -r *" ? Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk