After verifying that the trash can is completely empty, use TextEdit to save a tiny, one-character text file named "Foo" to the startup drive, then quit Text Edit and drag "Foo" to the trash. Under the worst circumstances, Leopard can encounter a permissions problem affecting Locum that Disk Utility cannot repair. Whenever securely removing large amounts of data, run Activity Monitor with All Processes ordered by CPU usage, and wait 15 minutes to several hours for Locum or srm to finish if you interrupt Locum by restarting, canceling, or force-quitting, you could leave your HD in an indeterminate state, so you'll need to boot from the Install DVD to repair the HD, not just the permissions. Under normal circumstances, Secure Empty Trash may take a very long time to finish, so long that it may appear to "hang" when it really hasn't. ~ Weird ~ That cycle was successfully completed though.Īnyway, I was wondering - Does this happen to ALL Mac OS X Leopard user? Or does this only happen to those who performed an upgrade installation? and it doesn't happen to those with clean installation? Or the chances was just 50 - 50 percent? Some got lucky and some don't?ĭo we by any chance know someone out there who doesn't seems to have this problem? Could it be just a single string/script that was mess-up?Īs pointed out, Secure Empty Trash invokes the Locum process, which is a wrapper/placeholder allowing "srm" (secure remove) and other utilities to overwrite or remove files they normally might not have permission to access. As I was trying to Secure Empty Trash a halfway downloaded file (just one file and not folder), the Secure Empty Trash process bar stated there's 20 items to be trash. But it seems that - it happens to me too. Although I am not sure how to they saw the hidden files. Some say that - after they Secure Empty Trash, got stuck, and Force Quit finder - they found out that there's still some hidden files remain in the Trash. It should be fix and we shouldn't be living like this. Although by performing a Force Quit to the finder solve everything. The same as most of the post that I have read - the Trash icon will appears to be empty but somehow the Secure Empty Trash process bar seems to be in the processing status forever when it comes to show that there's only 5 items left. Out of 10 times, 9 failed and perhaps only 1 time succeeded.
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