![]() ![]() I'm making my clone now and it seems to be OK. I actually decided to totally clear the trash since I was making a backup bootable clone and didn't want to copy all of this trash there. I then selected the troublesome files and used Command-Delete to delete them. Then, showing that directory in Finder, I used the Go To Folder option on the Go menu and typed in ".Trash" which, unlike the Terminal, showed me all of the files in the trash! I didn't expect Finder to have abilities that the terminal lacked. Note that I had to first use Finder to navigate to my regular user home by turning on the path bar in the View menu, then clicking on my drive, then the Users directory, then my regular user directory. I don't know if that part was critical or some file system issue. I went back to the terminal and the files seemed to now be visible, so I used rm -r just for good measure and they went away. Then I tried to delete them in the Finder, which worked! Annoying. ![]() I tried to use the terminal to delete the files, but that failed and just refused to do it. I then logged out, and back in as root by selecting "Other" on the login screen and typing in "root" for the user and my new password. I followed the instructions here on enabling the root user: I had the same problem today and here is what I did after failing to find any helpful information on the issue. Macbook air, up to date with Big Sur 11.4 unable to be removed.Īs things are now, I've exhausted all available solutions to reclaim this space on my drive. When I reconnect the drive, I still have no space freed and the junk files are still living in my trash folder. Restarting my computer hasn't helped either. Selecting trash files in question, clicking "get info" and unlocking them still doesn't let me right click and delete immediately. Putting sudo rm -R into my command line and dragging the offensive trash into my terminal. Here's the problem, there are 10s of thousands of files, so that is not realistic. The Macos popup tells me I should manually locate and change the permissions of the offending file. When I try to empty my trash, I get an error saying that I can't, because some of the files are locked, or in use or I don't have permission. ![]() However I can't empty my trash, and no space has freed up on the drive. I have hundreds of gigabytes of files that I manually (tried) to delete from an external hard drive. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |