The file wasn't visible, but whenever I emptied the Trash, I got the annoying message The operation cannot be completed because the item Desktop DB is in use."Īfter clicking Continue, the Trash icon reverted to its apparently empty state, but the next time I put something in it and went to delete it, the same message appeared. I somehow ended up with a copy of the Desktop DB file in the Trash. A pop up will ask you to confirm that you wish to empty the Trash Can.Summary: If you delete the trash folder ( ~/.Trash) and then recreate it, you must restart Finder before you can drag things to the Trash icon again.īackground/Explanation: I've been doing some disk housekeeping: deleting files, moving them around on external drives, etc. Next choose Empty Trash under the Finder menu or press Command+Shift+Delete. To empty the Trash Can for all drives, plug your USB drive into the Mac, wait for it to mount. This will delete the contents of the Recycling Bin on the USB drive.įor MacOS, there is unfortunately no built-in way to empty just the Trash Can on a USB drive all Trash Can folders on all drives are emptied by default.
Place a check mark for “Recyclin Bin”, and click “OK”.
In the “General” tab, click on “Disk Cleanup”. Right click on the drive and select “Properties”. To empty the Recycling Bin folder created by a Windows PC, plug your USB drive into the PC, wait for the drive to show up in Windows Explorer. Proceed only if you are certain that you do not need these files. The steps below permanently empties these folders so you will not be able to recover these files again. Warning: The purpose of the Windows Recyclin Bin and MacOS Trash Can is to allow you to recover previously deleted files that you later need. Fixing this issue requires emptying the contents of these folders permanently. If you’ve deleted some media files from a USB drive or SD card, yet the deleted files still show up, the issue is likely caused by the presence of Windows Recycling Bin or MacOS Trash Can folders on the USB drive or SD card. Deleted videos, photos, or music files still show up
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