Trash Not Emptying Fully (1 Viewer)

Umfufu

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Only started happening recently.
After emptying the trash the icon still looks like it's got something in it.

trash1.jpg

When I open up the Trash folder everything is gone except this.

View attachment 6881

Any ideas?
 
hold down ALT while emptying trash.

or - in terminal - type:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
 
Doesn't help.

If i open the trash folder I can drag the item out of the window, it disappears & the trash icon looks empty again.
But if I click on the icon again the weird file reappears.
 
Had a similar problem in work recently. Got around it by copying to a network drive and deleting from there. When you delete from a network drive it's deleted without going into the trash
 
It doesn't seem to be an actual file, more like a glitch.
It says the file is an Alias file & is 0kB.

I can empty the trash by opening Trash in Finder & trying to drag the file to the desktop.
The file never appears on the desktop but is gone from the Trash.
It will also disappear from Trash if I try to Get Info on the file.

Unfortunately, if I even single-click the Trash icon again the "file" reappears.

Not a major issue, just weird & slightly annoying.
 
Sorted!

It's seems to happen when you partition your hard drive.
I had set up Boot Camp ages ago with the intention of sticking Windows on it in case I needed it.

I just restored the disk to a single volume the Alias file disappeared for good.
 

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