Three Options were listed in the box: “Skip” “Stop” or “Continue”. The small horizontal box noted above appeared with the wording “Emptying the Trash…3 items present” and added above it was a second small horizontal box above it saying “The operation can’t be completed because the item “folders” is in use”. Tried again the Empty Trash and got stuck at the same point as initially (2.a.)īefore trying a Safe Boot, I tried deleting each “backup” from Trash individually and then clicked on Trash and selected Empty,Īt the erasing Trash point, the Question arose: “Are you sure you want to permanently erase the items in the Trash?” Let iMac sit overnight before attempting Safe Boot and found the small horizontal window with message: “Emptying the Trash… 3 items deleted.” had disappeared.
Submitted Question Apple Community and received your advice to “Safe Boot from HD”. Having a 2009 iMac running OS 10.13.6 I was not confident upgrading would be successful.
Small horizontal window opened with message: “Emptying the Trash… 3 items deleted.”Ĭhecked Apple Community and found similar issue with advice to upgrade OS. Issue: Deleted most of the content on the external hard storage drive (Seagate Backup Plus Format Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I believe it went to iMac Trash Bin.Unable to fully empty/erase TrashĪttempted to empty iMac Trash and process came to a halt and the following experienced.
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