Sorry Tony I made an error in my previous email... Sleep deprived - I did not sleep last night and badly need some sleep :( You are running Mavericks Go to Application > Utilities and open the Terminal app. At the prompt, copy/paste the following command
rm -rf ~/.Trash/* Hit Return Then quit Terminal Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 8 Sep 2014, at 10:16 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > My comments in Situ below > >> On 8 Sep 2014, at 8:55 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Ronni >> >> Now to answer your questions, my goodness listen to the rain, my query is in >> regards to our older laptop, which I have taken over. >> >> Due to other Mac’s in the House this Lap top has been ignored for a while. >> Not wanting to lose any photo’s I want to back up iPhoto and leave the >> computer to back up to the external hard drive on a regular basis. > > How large is the External Drive you have formatted 'Mac OS Extended > (Journaled)' - Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table? > If there is nothing on the external drive, and if it is 1 & 1/2 to 2 times > larger than the hard drive on the computer use Time Machine to backup the > whole system. > > Time Machine will regularly backup everything on the Laptop... including > iPhoto > > NOTE: iPhoto must be closed 'Quit' when Time Machine does a backup, if iPhoto > is left Open TM will not backup iPhoto. > >> Last Back up was 3 years ago, approximately. >> >> >> Running OSX 10.9.4 >> >> >> iPhoto 08. Version 7.1.5 (378). >> >> >> The external Hard Drive has been formatted. >> >> >> One question, aside from the iPhoto request Ronni, how do I delete rubbish >> that is ‘Locked’?? I have 2 Movies in the bin and cannot delete them despite >> saying yes to “Do you want to delete the locked files”, I can’t seem to be >> able to delete them. > > Hold down Shift + Option key while choosing 'Empty Trash' > > If that doesn't empty the trash > Open Terminal.app > Paste this command rm -r ~/.Trash > hit return key > > Cheers, > Ronni >> >> Thank you Ronni >> >> Kindest Regards and best wishes >> >> Tony >> xoxo
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