Hi Al Best to try repairing the disk first :
For Lion & Mountain Lion users, boot holding CMD + R to boot into the recovery partition, use Disk Utility to repair the drive. For pre-Lion users, boot holding CMD + S then type : fsck -fy Push return and it'll check the drive. It'll take a while as there are hundreds of thousands of files to check. When it's done, type : reboot Push return and the Mac will reboot. If that doesn't allow you empty the trash, open up the trash in a new window, then open up Applications > Utilities > Terminal. Type the following : sudo rm -fr Be sure to leave a space after the '-fr', then drag the contents of the trash window into the Terminal window. It should load the file paths of everything you just dragged in (be careful with this!). Push return and type your password, then it should remove all the files/folders you just dragged into the window. Quit Terminal and your trash should be empty. I'd suggest a reboot afterwards for good measure. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] On 25 Nov 2012, at 14:52, Al Aldridge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > we tried to delete some back ups to clean up my friends Mac and we couldn't > delete the trash. It comes with this error message. I searched on the net and > gave me other similar error codes but not this one. > > Anyone knows How can I delete the back ups from the Mac? > > > <image.png> > > > Regards, > > > Al Aldridge > [email protected] > 07803139981 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
