Ok Bill,
What are all the files in the trash?
Do you normally use ‘Secure Empty Trash’?
In addition to your Home/Trash folder, there is a hidden .Trash folder at the
top level of your hard drive, and also hidden .Trashes folders on each of your
external drives, each containing a subfolder for every user account on your
Mac.
Even if they are all empty, the hidden folders themselves are all deleted when
you 'Secure Empty', which could account for the increased number of items that
are being reported.
If the above is not the case, and you are now finding more items in your Trash,
(that you have not physically placed there), there has to be something causing
this to happen.
Have you installed new software?
Do you have ‘Growl’ installed? Why I ask is if you do.
Every time you log in to or start up your Mac, and you find that your Trash
contains a Recovered items folder, which, in turn, contains a bunch of
.growlRegDict files.
The most likely cause of this is that you have more than one copy of Growl
installed. Look in both of these locations:
• The PreferencePanes folder in the Library folder in your Home
folder
• The PreferencePanes folder in the Library folder at the root
level of your hard disk
Current versions of Growl only allow you to install it at the latter location,
but older versions let you choose either one.
So, if you upgraded from an older version of Growl, you may still have it in
your Home Library.
The safest solution is to look in both locations, and delete whichever Growl is
older.
This will probably be the one in your Home Library.
Might not be a bad idea to run the Combo OS X 10.6.8 over your system.
Download the OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo from here:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399>
Run the Install,
Then run “Repair Permissions”
Cheers,
Ronni
On 21/11/2011, at 8:42 AM, Bill Parker wrote:
> Yep, that seems to be what is happening. And I'd say some months. Mostly
> keep the laptop running. As to software upgrade - maybe it was 10.6.7 to 8
> but not sure.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On 21/11/2011, at 8:05 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> So you are not ‘physically’ putting these items in the Trash?
>> Do they just appear in the trash after a restart?
>> When did this start happening … after an upgrade or installation of software?
>>
>> After a restart you can often see in the trash “Recovered Items”, is theis
>> what you are referring to?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
>>
>> On 21/11/2011, at 7:48 AM, Bill Parker wrote:
>>
>>> Ronni see below.
>>> On 21/11/2011, at 7:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>
>>>> How long since you deleted the trash previously?
>>>
>>>
>>> Day before yesterday. The high fie number occurs quite frequently.
>>>
>>>> Have you deleted files from Time Machine via Finder?
>>>
>>> Negative
>>>> Or have an external drive connected or disconnected that you have deleted
>>>> files from?
>>>>
>>> Negative
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ronni
>>>>
>>>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
>>>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
>>>>
>>>> OS X 10.7.2 Lion
>>>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
>>>>
>>>> On 21/11/2011, at 6:55 AM, Bill Parker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Robin,
>>>>>
>>>>> Files are being deleted - but the quantity far exceeds how many I can see
>>>>> listed. The site is providing good info.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>> On 20/11/2011, at 9:23 PM, Robin Belford wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have experienced problems like you describe.
>>>>>> I found my solution here.
>>>>>> http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hope this helps
>>>>>>
>>>>>> robin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20/11/2011, at 9:15 PM, Bill Parker wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I want to empty my trash, but cannot. It says it contains 1285 files
>>>>>>> but I can only count 53. I have tried either remove all of remove
>>>>>>> unlocked. Same result. I have in the recent file clunts of 2 - 3000
>>>>>>> items when visibly at least there is no such quantity there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Turned machine off and re-start. No avail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mac book pro 10.6.8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bill
>>>>
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