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How to restore a user's .Trash folder
Authored by: rammjet on Dec 20, '06 10:21:47AM

Usually, if you try to delete a file in the Trash that is busy, first try holding down the Option key while emptying the Trash to force a delete.

If that doesn't work, then logging out and then back in will break the running process and allow you to delete the file. No deletion of any Trashes.



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lsof
Authored by: SeanAhern on Dec 20, '06 11:44:24AM

Short of logging out, I find that the 'lsof' command will often find me the process that's using a given file. Terminating that program/process will often do the trick.



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