{"id":4550,"date":"2012-01-30T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:49:19","slug":"snow-leopard-trash-can-wont-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=4550","title":{"rendered":"Snow Leopard &#8211; Trash can won&#8217;t empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason that the &#8220;Secure empty trash&#8221;-function refuses to tell me, it would not totally empty my trash on our Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I stumbled across this Youtube-clip that got me started http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lPTY8kHd0Hw [video:youtube:lPTY8kHd0Hw]<br \/>\nPoint is that you need to go to the terminal and do a<br \/>\n<!-- codeblock lang= line=1 --><\/p>\n<pre class=\"codeblock\"><code>cd .\/.Trash\r\nsudo rm -rf *.*<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><!-- \/codeblock --> to get the files deleted. If you watch the video don&#8217;t worry about all the warnings of how dangerous the command is and also the thing he says that the command can have change &#8211; it won&#8217;t change, this is a basic Linux\/Unix command. Anyhow, this helped me out and I got to empty the trash totally. I guess it is a feature, but I hate the fact that it cannot empty my trash without me using command line sudo rm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason that the &#8220;Secure empty trash&#8221;-function refuses to tell me, it would not totally empty my trash on our Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I stumbled across this Youtube-clip that got me started http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lPTY8kHd0Hw [video:youtube:lPTY8kHd0Hw] Point is that you need to go to the terminal and do a cd .\/.Trash sudo rm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}