Hi Sam, Thank you very much I will have a try sometime this week.
Regards, Al On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected] > wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
