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Re: Error 8062 when emptying trash

Hello Chris,

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 10:59 PM, Chris Scott wrote:

I am running an Xserve box with OS X Server v. 10.2.4. Connected to the rear firewire connections are two external firewire hard drives to which I back up. I'm logged in as System Administrator.

I have trashed many (thousands) of files from each of the external hard drives. When I try to empty the trash, the dialogue box indicates it's counting the files, gets to a very high number (e.g., 20,000), then gives the following error message: "Sorry, operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8062)".

About that error, I don't know. Maybe a Finder error code telling you it is choking because the number of files is awfully high. You you could always get to the terminal and resort to good old reliable "rm -rf"? All you have to do is cd into your trash, "cd ~/.Trash", and erase all that's there with "rm -rf *". Be careful! that will wipe everything in its path, no questions asked! You might want to check you're in the appropriate directory (/Users/<username>/.Trash) with "pwd" before you use that.


If I log on as another user (with administrator privileges), the trash is empty.

That is actually quite simple. In Mac OS X, as opposed to Mac OS 9 and older, the trash is just a directory on a per user basis. So when you login as a different user, regardless of being an admin or not, you're going to a different home directory, the user's, with a completely different set of directories, including the trash. Basically you have /Users/<username>/{Desktop,Documents,Library,Movies,Songs,Sites,.Trash} and others, where the <username> accounts for the user you logged in as. Clear as mud?


Can anyone offer any insights, explanations, or suggestions?

Hope those help! Regards,...



Juan.
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