Josh, I expect that the important information in that chflags command is actually the nouchg part. In most unix file manipulation commands like chmod, cp a dash capital R (-R) is used to say do this command recursively. In other words don't just change this folder but change every file and folder contained in the folder specified in path.
I was thinking of suggesting you use the rm -rf command to remove files on the disk, but decided this was too dangerous since if you do that command with the wrong path you will delete everything on the computer. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 16, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Joshua Tubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > So I figured out the problem regarding the trash and my Time Machine backup. > The solution is pretty simple actually, at least for me. > Setting chflags to -R on any file will unlock it if it happens to be locked. > So, in terminal, you can do: > chflags -R nouchg <path of files> > To have the path of the trash files or any file path in finder auto-filled > in, you can simply drag it to the terminal. Believe it or not, with the > finder, this works with VoiceOver’s drag and drop commands. > I then emptied the trash and it successfully emptied. > HTH. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
