You may have seen this in OS X when trying to delete files:
“This item will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action.”
Deleting and recreating the .Trash directory will generally solve this.
Here’s a quick guide!
1. Crack open a terminal:
Applications > Utilities > Terminal
2. Next, remove the existing Trash directory if it exists by typing the command as below into the terminal.
Your command prompt may complain of no such file or directory. That’s ok.
$ rmdir -rf ~/.Trash rmdir: .Trash: No such file or directory
If your trash is not able to be emptied or deleted, you can preface this command with sudo. Take extreme caution in using sudo. You will be prompted for your password:
$ sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
3. Now, create the directory call .Trash. It needs the ‘dot’ as well as a capital T as below:
$ mkdir ~/.Trash
4. Finally, restart Finder:
Apple Menu > Force Quit > Relaunch Finder
Now your trash should work fine!
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Hi,
When I tried step 3 above, Terminal said:
mkdir: /Users/mike/.Trash: Permission denied
Now what?
Now I’m asked for a password each time I tried to put a file in the Trash, and when I enter my password, trash empties immediately.
It can also happen, that your trash has the ‘immmutable’ or ‘append’ flag set. You can check this by typing: ls -lOa ~/.Trash. If there are filesystem flags set, remove them (check the respective manpage: man chflags)
Generally, your ~/.Trash should be owned by you, have permission 700 and no append or immutable flags set:
chown ~/.Trash
chgrp staff ~/.Trash
chmod 700 ~/.Trash (which is: rwx——)
Marc
it worked – THANK YOU!!!