Hi, I don't believe that a re-install is necessary. Have you Shutdown or Restart your unit lately. Often, if there are files that the OS considers "in use" or "busy", the Trash cannot be properly emptied until after the OS has been restarted.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-01-22, at 5:04 AM, Chris H <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon all. > I am having a problem eptying the trash. This has been happening for a while > now. Here is what I do. > 1. I press command-shift-delete in the Finder. > 2. I am asked if I want to securely erase the trash. This is my personal > preference so I let it go ahead. > 3. I then get a window with the buttons remove unlocked files and remove all. > 4. I click remove unlocked files. > 5. It goes ahead and empties it for a while, but then I'm taken back to the > Finder. The same is true if I have clicked remove all. > But what concerns me is the window I described above, plus I have about > 13,000 files in the trash, which just won't go away. > Should I consider booting to the recovery partition, erasing the Macintosh Hd > volume, then reinstall Mountain Lion from scratch? > This is on a 2012 Macbook Pro 13 inch without Retina Display. > Any responses would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > Chris. > -- > > Christopher Hallsworth > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
