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Fix unusable Trash on other volumes
Authored by: quecojones on Apr 05, '06 01:05:14PM

I have a somewhat related problem that I haven't been able to resolve and I am wondering if this might help me in some way. Basically, there is a file (or package) in the Trash (on an external FW drive) that won't let me empty the Trash. I've tried messing around with the permissions and such but, I still can't get rid of that file. The annoying thing is that the Finder says that it's size is 0KB. Using the [code]rm -Rf[/code] on the file gives me an error message saying that the directory isn't empty.

Do you have any idea/suggestion on whether this might work for me?



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Fix unusable Trash on other volumes
Authored by: Anonymous on May 07, '06 06:49:16PM

Go into your external volume using Terminal. Then type:

cd .Trashes

When you're in there you can type ls and you should be able to see a directory with a name like 501. cd into that directory and most likely that is where you'll find your lost file. If you still can't see it type ls -al

This will list everything including hidden files.



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