The Trash icon on my Dock shows the Trash containing files. I tried right-clicking and Empty Trash
, but it still shows files there.
When I open the Trash folder in Finder, I can see several files still there.
I tried manually emptying the Trash with rm ~/.Trash/*
, but that doesn't work. In fact, ls ~/.Trash/
shows the folder being empty!
I tried Force Quit
ting Finder, but that didn't help either.
I'm sure rebooting would fix the problem, but I'd prefer a solution that didn't require rebooting.
Specs:
- Mac OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion
- MacBook Pro mid-2009
Best Answer
Rebooting doesn't help. I used Disk Utility.app to try to repair the USB drive. It turns out the file system is corrupted; only backing up my files, reformatting, and restoring my files fixes the .Trashes folder on the drive.
The Seagate also forcibly disconnects when the cable is jiggled; Hardware issues likely caused the file system corruption in the first place.