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Monday, December 27, 2010

[How-To] - Quickly Empty Trash on MacOS X

So, I often end up in situations where there is just too much data in my Trash and emptying Trash on a Mac can take ages. The annoying bit is – while Trash is being emptied – you can not delete anything else meanwhile. I ran into a situation today where I needed to reclaim my disk space on my internal disk and the only way to do so was to empty trash which had about the same size of stuff in it. Deleting via the Finder window can take ages as it counts the files and deletes them, it almost seems like an endless process.
Apparently, you can do so via the Terminal window
cd ~/.Trash
rm -rf *
That command recursively and silently deletes everything in Trash within minutes.

3 comments:

  1. salam bro Edoras!~

    bain baru nak menjinak²kan diri ngan Apple products. sekarang ni baru tau yg bro ada blogspot for Apple's gadgets!!! best giler + veru informative! thank you for sharing bro! ^_^

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  2. bro Edoras dah pakai iPad??? wallamakkk...best giler!!!~ ^_^ bain pun tgh berangan nak pakai satu tapi bajet belum cukup..sabo jelaa...^_^

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  3. Bro Bain - iPad tu dah lama pakai... Awal2 memang selalu pakai...tapi sekarang agak kurang sedikit... haha..

    Welcome to the World of Apple!! ;-)

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