Re: Weird Issue with Trash

[patrickneazer]

Hello Tiffanitsa and all:

I have a good guess why this is happening though I am not sure why you  
cannot click on the stop or continue buttons ... which are the ones  
you should be seeing.

If you are getting such a situation, the computer believes that one of  
the programs you are attempting to toss out in the trash is being used  
by some other program. if it thinks that some program is using a file  
in the trash it will not toss it out and will attempt to ask you what  
you want to do with the empty trash function ... aka ... stop or  
continue.

Restarting your computer will probably work because the file will be  
released from the program it is supposedly using.

Good luck.
On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Tiffany D wrote:

I don't know why, but sometimes, when I delete something, I get this
empty trash dialogue.  When I try to read it it just says list.  I try
to interact with the list and get operation progress.  I go further
and it just says image.  When I hit tab it says continue and stop but
no matter what I try, nothing works.  It just gets stuck.  I've tried
VO and space, enter and even command VO f5 and then VO shift space but
nothing.  The only way for me to get out of it is to force quit
finder.  Usually, when I empty the trash, I can delete things again
but this time, it's not working.  I did a force quit finder and tried
to empty trash but the button is dimmed.  I'm gonna restart and then
try again.  Does anyone know what's going on here?

Thanks,
Tiffanitsa


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