Do NOT use a space as a password or have spaces in your password. It is highly recommended you have a password, even if it’s a single letter. If you are in any way connected to the Internet and are using a blank password, you are opening your entire system up to hackers trying to gain access. Persons using Snow Leopard (10.6.x) will not be able to use Trash It! with a blank password. Persons using Yosemite or higher don’t have this issue. Run Trash It!, and when finished, go back into Users and Groups, and set your password back to nothing. To get around this issue (It’s an Apple thing), CLOSE all open applications, go into your System Preferences > Users and Groups and change your password to something other than nothing. From the menu bar, go to Utilities > Terminal. Maintain holding command+R until the Apple logo and progress bar appears on-screen Wait for the Mac to boot into Recovery Mode. Once the Mac has completely powered down, turn it on and hold command+R. Trash It! uses the BSD Subsystem and a blank password will not be accepted on earlier OS X versions. Shut down your Mac using the Apple icon in the menu bar. See more Installation and Usage on our How-to page and in the Instructions file (enclosed in the zip file).īLANK PASSWORDS: If your password is blank, i.e., you have NO password, Trash It! will not work on your system if you’re using 10.6.x or lower. Restart your Mac but don’t hold down any keys. However, these methods won’t actually delete anything from your Mac. 2.You can click on the file and press the command Command + Delete to move it into the Trash icon in the dock. You can right-click on any file and choose the option Move to Trash from the options. Try to empty the Trash again with Trash It!. 1.You can drag and drop any files on to the trash icon in the dock. This will disable any startup or login items. Restart your Mac in “safe mode” by holding the Shift key after you hear the chime. An easy way to fix this is to simply restart your computer and run Trash It! again. This might take a while, but you’ll have all of your free space once it’s done. Sometimes the file(s) you are trying to delete may be in use by an application or the system. Right click the trash can on your dock, then click Empty Trash. You may need to put it into a new folder first before the System will let you take it out of the trash. Then drag and drop it onto the Trash It! icon. Try, try again. If that doesn’t work, take the stuck item out of the trash. Try creating a new folder, moving the new folder to the trash, and moving the offending files/folders into this new empty folder. You have a file in the trash and it’s locked and Trash It! can’t delete it. (Replace sudo rm with sudo rm -rf if you want to delete folders.) Enter in your administrator password and press Return again. In those cases, try these tips below gathered from users and from around the web. In the Terminal, type the command: sudo rm followed by a space, drag the files in the Trash to the Terminal, and press the Return key. If you’re absolutely sure that you won’t want to restore a file from the Trash and would rather delete it immediately, you have these two convenient options.Sometimes even Trash It can’t get rid of a stubborn file or folder. So, select Delete Immediately and then confirm that you wish to delete it in the pop-up box. Move to Trash changes to Delete Immediately.
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