Can’t move files to trash

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Lately, my computer will not let me move my files to the trash. It doesn't give me an error or anything, it'll just give me the usual 'moving file to trash' message and it gets stuck right there. I can't stop the process and the process of moving the file into the trash never finishes. I have to force reload finder to get rid of that message and even then, the file is not in the trash. I'm honestly not sure why it's doing this.

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I would suggest you reset your Finder by deleting its property file. As you can't delete it via Finder, you'll have to use Terminal for that

Open Terminal
type cd ~/Library/Preferences followed by Enter
type rm com.apple.finder.plist followed by Enter

Then restart your computer.

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You could try deleting it from the command line (Terminal).

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/

Be careful with this one though. This can't be undone if you punch that in wrong.

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I need to do some more research to get this right. I feel like its close, but applescript still doesn't like it. Maybe it will give you some ideas until I get back here to give it another shot. Btw this is going to be so much easier when you are using the choose file dialog.

heres my non-working (yet) attempt. If you don't be me to it ill try to finish the solution tomorrow.

# 1. get desktop folder
set desktopFolder to (((path to desktop from user domain) as string)) as alias


# 2.set source file
tell application "Finder" to ¬
set theFile to ((path to file "1.text" of folder (desktopFolder)) as string) as   alias


# 3.set destination file
tell application "Finder" to ¬
set theDestination to ((path to file "2.text" of folder (desktopFolder)) as string) as alias



# 4.make it happen
tell application "Finder" to move theFile to theDestination with replacing

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