[Editor's note: And if you haven't noticed, there are keyboard shortcuts for both the regular empty trash (shift-command-delete) and the super empty trash (add the option key to the mix!).]
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I don't remember seeing this before 10.2, but it's back!! While holding down the Option key and selecting "Empty trash," you can delete all items in the trash, including those pesky locked items. Oh yah!
[Editor's note: And if you haven't noticed, there are keyboard shortcuts for both the regular empty trash (shift-command-delete) and the super empty trash (add the option key to the mix!).]
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I have the folder from hell residing in my (ALPHA X HDD) Trash can. It is called "Alpha deleted" ( and it seems to lie on the desktop on my second partition on another HDD) and contains (4 spaces) HFS + Private Data). I am told I have not got sufficient privileges to get rid of it, and it is locked so it is a root file (System and Wheel). It will be there for ever as a recent re-install did not remove this link. Drat!
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Whenever I`ve had problems of this nature, I simply boot into OS 9 proper,
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Dear Graham,
I hade the same problem just a few days ago and if you still stuck with it then I have a sollution that solved the problem for my. Start the terminal and login as admin, if you aren't it allready. From within the terminal do the following steps. [localhost:/] admin% sudo shutdown now--> Quit Aqua and go in the underground % su % cd /Volumes/your drive/your folder/--> Change directory to the folder where your undeletable file/folder is nested in. % chflags nouchg,noschg Your_undeletabel_file/folder % rm -r Your_undeletabel_file/folder--> Because your file/folder contains special characters at the beginning of the file/folder name, just hit TAB once to let the system choose the mestyrious object. (This works only if there are NO other files/folders next to Your_undeletabel_file/folder.) % exit % rebootThe above procedure can alos be done if you boot into sinlge user mode after you did a fsck -y Hope that helps you and anyone else and sorry for my bad english. Greetings from Switzerland Thomas Thaler
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I have the folder from hell residing in my (ALPHA X HDD) Trash can. It is called "Alpha deleted" ( and it seems to lie on the desktop on my second partition on another HDD) and contains (4 spaces) HFS + Private Data). I am told I have not got sufficient privileges to get rid of it, and it is locked so it is a root file (System and Wheel). It will be there for ever as a recent re-install did not remove this link. Drat!
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It is a so called nice feature. It allows you to retrieve the settings of a deleted user if you want to.
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Worked perfectly for me.
Don't delete that folder!
Note that one should normally not delete the folder "HFS+ Private Data", it contains directory information about multi-linked/hard-linked files (and possibly other directory structures too) in OS X. Even a fresh install of OS X has a few hard-linked files in /bin for example. (I wish Apple would provide at least SOME documentation for such low-level aspects of the system!)
Even Better With Mouse
If you have a locked item in the trash and you use the mouse contextual menu (right click on 2 button, "Control Click" or just "Click and hold" on the 1 button) the finder empties the trash with locked items inside and of course no dialoge box. |
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