Questions tagged [trash]
A storage location for files that have been marked for deletion, but not yet removed from the filesystem.
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Is it possible to rescue older parts of a Time Machine backup?
If one were to accidentally delete one folder from a Time Machine backup, could one salvage at least the older backups? Or would all be lost? By "folder" I mean the folders corresponding to ...
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How can I fix problem with Preview refusing to delete files on an external drive?
I find that I generally cannot remove files on my main (hfs) external drive via Preview. I can remove them via a Finder window, and I can remove then from Terminal, just not Preview! If they're on my ...
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Why can’t phantom files in trash in macOS Sequoia 15.5 be deleted?
I have a strange issue with my Mac Mini with macOS Sequoia 15.5 installed. When I run a SuperDuper backup, it backs up my boot drive to a target image on an external drive. No biggy. ut it's sending ...
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Using Apple script to delete selected items if they contain a specific string
I am almost totally ignorant in scripting, although I am a bit of a geek and several times I managed to edit and adapt code i found on the web, to perform simple but useful tasks that we use in mine ...
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How to disable "Empty the Trash without confirmation dialog." of Finder?
Finder has a functionality "Empty the Trash without confirmation dialog.". I want disable it completely or disable the shortcut to this functionality The reason I want to disable it is that ...
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Mysterious 518 Messages in iCloud: Hidden Second Trash or Bug?
I've noticed a peculiar issue with my iCloud account. Despite regularly deleting messages and emptying the trash, I consistently have 518 messages in iCloud that occupy space but aren't visible ...
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How can I recover files from an emptied trash can on a MacBook M1?
On the 23rd of August 2024, all the files on my MacBook Pro 2022 M1's desktop were moved to the trash can and then deleted. The folders contained two years' worth of my work and personal documents. My ...
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Where can I find Trash folder on external "MacOS" drive taken from a old MacBook?
My 12 year old MacBook crashed (MacBook Pro mid 2012, running macOS Catalina), so I pulled the hard drive out to recover the data on it. I connected the old MacOS drive to my new MacBook as an ...
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How to view logs of deleted folders
2 days ago I edited some files on my iMac. I came back today and inexplicably there was no folder containing those files. I would like to know how to view reports of files deleted during this sort of ...
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filecoordinationd is blocking my Trash from emptying it
I've got a fresh M2 MacBook Pro which I configured as new (not a backup restore). Very often, when I try emptying the Trash, the process hangs waiting for something. When I then do sudo lsof +c0 ....
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Do iOS backups include Files' trash?
If I temporarily have large downloaded files on my phone, can I accelerate iOS (16) backups by simply moving them to the trash, thereby excluding them from iTunes backup altogether? On macOS I know I ...
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Trash won't empty correctly
Firstly I'd like to say this is not the standard "my trash won't empty" question. My trash does empty but it won't empty correctly. What happens is when I click "empty trash" it ...
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How to force delete files from Trash on Silicon based Macs
This is a follow up question to by previous posting: Why is Bootcamp Assistant on my MacBook Pro (M2) after using Migration Assistant? For some reason while running the various delete methods in my ...
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Can't delete folder named drkit
I recently restored my Mac from a backup and it left behind some files in a deleted users folder. I deleted all of them but there is one folder, titled drkit, that I can't seem to delete: though it ...
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Has anyone been able to recover deleted files from an emptied trash (on Mac)? [closed]
Any commands on the terminal to achieve deleted data recovery? I tried a few recovery software, but none I found efficient and some are even buggy (Disk Drill, EaseUS, Any Recovery, Stellar Data ...
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