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Can’t Empty The Trash Can

November 9, 2016

If you have trouble emptying the trash this morning, here’s a helpful tip.

Your OS is essentially telling you the file is in use, but the application is close.

Nothing like running rm -rf on the trash folder.

# Go the trash directory and delete all!
cd ~/.Trash
rm -rf *

# Go the trash directory and delete all! cd ~/.Trash rm -rf *

The file is gone!

Filed Under: Linux, Mac Tagged With: app in use, rm -rf, terminal, trash

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