Timeline for Emptying trash of the USB drive
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| Dec 26, 2020 at 1:06 | comment | added | Gordon Davisson | @firebush Good point; I added notes and a link. | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 1:05 | history | edited | Gordon Davisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added notes about solving permissions errors
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| Dec 25, 2020 at 21:30 | comment | added | firebush | This is helpful, but I got "permission denied" until I granted "Full Disk Access" to Terminal from "Security and Privacy" settings. It seems like this is a requirement for recent (Catalina onwards? I'm on Big Sur) OS versions. You got my upvote, but for the benefit of others can you please update this answer with that information? For reference: osxdaily.com/2018/10/09/… | |
| S Feb 13, 2017 at 19:05 | history | suggested | gerlos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added details to investigate the problem, improved formatting, fixed typos
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 17:51 | comment | added | gerlos |
It may be dangerous to run a command that involves both sudo rm and /Volumes/*/something, because it could affect even your system drive, and a typo can have bad consequences.
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 17:46 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 28, 2013 at 10:25 | comment | added | Danijel-James W | Adding the -f switch to the command will force the action. Substituting the "volumename" with "*" would allow you to connect multiple USB drives and empty all the Trash on all of them simultaneously. Don't have to connect 1-by-1 and then re-do. | |
| Nov 11, 2012 at 16:28 | comment | added | cdeszaq | The "might be in someone else's Trash" is exactly the issue I was running into. This should be better advertised! | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 2:54 | vote | accept | prosseek | ||
| Jan 16, 2011 at 3:45 | history | answered | Gordon Davisson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |