Re: Weird Issue with Trash

[Cara Quinn]

  Tiffany, this is a bug whereby VO will only sometimes read this  
dialogue.  If you're focused on it when it comes up VO may  
accidentally read it, but more often than not, at least in my case,  
the pertinent info won't be spoken.

  This dialogue can come up for a number of reasons, and restarting  
finder nor letting it sit there will not have an effect, as trash  
simply will either not know what you want it to do with the file in  
question, or it will be asking you to confirm as the file may either  
be locked, or in some way have it's permissions set so that you may  
not have immediate permission to delete it.

  If you only have a few files in the folder you can press the  
continue button by only using the space bar on it, and not using VO  
space.  Tab to the button and just press space to activate it.  Now,  
as I said, if there are only a few files you may see another similar  
dialogue come up as other files may be locked and such, and you may  
need to confirm on all of them.  Simply trying to delete the entire  
folder will not necessarily help, as trash will again ask you to  
confirm these same files.

  One thing you can try, if you haven't already, is to select the  
trash icon in the dock, and use your down arrows to select the 'empty  
trash' option.  Once you do, hold down your option key and press  
enter.  This will force a delete without confirmations in most cases.

  If this still doesn't work, write back and we'll go from there…

Best of luck and have an awesome evening!…

Smiles,

Cara  :)
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On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Tiffany D wrote:

Nope.  Restarting didn't fix it and the program that would use the
file isn't even on.  I was able to delete similar files in that folder
with no problem.  I think I'll just save the ones I want and delete
the whole folder.  It's not even that important but it's frustrating
and I want a way around this.

On 29/01/2009, patrickneazer <patricknea...@mac.com> wrote:
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


Take good care and I wish you enough.

Love

Me