Questions tagged [deleting]
the destruction of a document, or file. Often, on the most common operating system, the file is compressed, and moved to a folder - dubbed "Trash" on OSX. The file must then be permanently deleted, before all remnants of the file are truly destroyed.
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How to "Delete app"? It doesn't show the option
I want to delete the app "Dynamic Reader" but when I long-click on it, it does not proposed me the option.
Of course, there is "Remove app" but what it does is that it shows a ...
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Cannot permanently delete certain files
I have this recurring problem where certain files can't be removed from my bin:
The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “0000”
can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)
I'm ...
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Application Repeatedly Downloads Automatically
I have a laptop given to me by a university (currently not employed by them). I've been trying to delete a VPN application (Global Protect) that was mandatory to login to university websites. It ...
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Can I delete the CombinedVocalizerVoices file from Mac?
Can I delete the following directory on my MacBook Air?
com_apple_MobileAsset_VoiceServices_CombinedVocalizerVoices
which is located at:
/System/Library/AssetsV2/...
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This app won’t download on iPad and it won't let me delete
So far I have tried:
Press and holding on the app
System Prefs -> General -> Storage
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New to macos: Apple Ventura OS will not let me delete TV?
I want to delete Apple TV on my 14-inch 2021 Macbook Pro M1, Ventura OS 13.1 version.
Running the command sudo rm -Rdf /System/Applications/TV.app in my terminal returns "Operation not permitted&...
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iMessage syncing on two separate phones and saving imessages
Feel free in your response to tell me as if I was a 2 years old as I come from Android. I know it ended up lengthy so thank you in advance!
So my teenage daughter has been deleting messages and lying ...
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Why does even `rm` refuse to operate with insufficient disk space, and how do you *really* delete files in that situation?
I have macOS High Sierra - 10.13.6 Security Update 2020-006 (17G14042) and my system is not behaving well due to the disk being full of data.
I try to keep a few GB free on my Mac's HD but ...
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Not able to delete a specific file in an APFS Time Machine backup
I am using a Mac Book Pro with Ventura 13.0.1. I've followed the answer to How can I manually delete files and folders from a Time Machine backup volume? to delete files from a Time Machine backup, ...
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How can I create the directory equivalent of /dev/null?
I have some directories that fill up with useless items such as ~/Library/Application Scripts or ~/Library/Caches or others. There are /dev/null type inodes that discard anything written to them ...
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How to delete Safari.app on Ventura?
I want to delete Safari. It doesn't support an internet filter extension that exists for Chrome and Firefox and I don't want it to be accessible at all. Apple has historically made it very difficult ...
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Delete all duplicate files
I have accidentally imported images from an app twice, resulting in list which repeats this pattern:
filename1.ext
filename1 2.ext
filename2.ext
filename2 2.ext
about 5,000 times.
All details (...
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How to delete images from media library and shared folder
I have some images in shared folders fo the Photo App (Version 7.0). If I delete them from the media library I expect them to disapear from all (shared) folders as well. I also went to the deleted ...
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How to get applescript to delete files which the Finder requires a password to delete
I have the following (snippet of) code:
tell application "System Events"
set theFolders to every folder of theHeadFolderPath
<repeat loop to select the element of theFolders to ...
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Xcode can't delete OneDrive files
When I put my Xcode project in OneDrive, I can't delete files from that project in Xcode. When I hit delete, it just ignores me. When I try to delete an image asset, it also ignores me. I have to ...
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Mac Sierra - find when something was deleted
My boss logged into my computer and deleted a series of text messages between us regarding my being injured at work. I have been able to recover the messages on my phone but I was wondering is there ...
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Photos library still taking up space after deleting photos
tldr: My photos library is 90Gb. I deleted a large chunk of that (deleted it too from Recently Deleted) but the file size is still at 90 GB. I checked the insides through "Show Package Contents&...
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how to uninstall Dictionary and other built in APPs? [duplicate]
I have a Macbook Pro. I want to uninstall built in apps, like Dictionary. How is this done?
Version 12.4 M1 chip
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How to delete photo from Album and Library at the same time?
I am using MacOS BigSur / Photos 6.0
I have photos in the Album that I want to delete completely from everywhere.
If I delete it found in the Album, it still keeps the photo in the Library, so in ...
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Can't delete read-only file on Mac after disabling SIP
I want to have different versions of ruby, i am using asdf for it. So, i have installed some different versions of ruby, but i can not switch their, because(maybe) i have /usr/bin/ruby
d@mac ~ % asdf ...
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Struggling to recover space after backup deletion on older system
My 2TB external drive (seagate SRD00F2) is refusing to recover space after deleting backups. I've tried a number of things, hoping to find help here, TYIA. The older backups were not deleting ...
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How can I remove files while in Recovery Mode?
The problem I have is to do with having a full disk and not being able to complete the reboot.
I can get to running diskutil list on Terminal. However then I can get nowhere else and I can not get ...
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Impossibly large file in trash that I cannot delete
I have a 2019 Intel Macbook Pro on the Monterey 12.1 Beta (21C5039b), and there's a file in my trash that I suspect has been causing me some problems. Its listed size in Finder is 8.32 EB (yes, that's ...
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How to remove a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences?
New to MacBook Pro 2019 (with current OS)
As I am tweaking the hotkeys for my Windows brain, there have been several times I added a key to an entry in System Prefs->Keyboard->Shortcuts but no ...
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When using rsync to sync a sparsebundle are --delete and -X for extended attributes options recommended?
I have scripts that rsync Time Machine sparsebundles to a remote server for offsite backups. I've always assumed that extended attributes are a function of the internal image filesystem and not the ...
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Would a user-wiped iPhone 11 still have 200k+ system files and database entries on it?
Would a factory reset iPhone 11 Pro Max still have hundreds of thousands of files and database entries on it?
For clarity, when I say "factory reset," I mean a user-initiated reset via ...
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How can I delete the files in /System/Volumes/VM?
Just as an experiment/exercise, I tried deleting the swap files in /System/Volumes/VM but no matter what I did, it was prevented.
sudo rm - operation not permitted
sudo xattr - didn't return anything
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Can't delete “.sass-cache” because its pathname is too long
I get the error Can't delete “.sass-cache” because its pathname is too long. when I try to empty my bin.
sudo rm -rvf ~/.Trash/* doesn't work, it returns zsh: no matches found: /Users/cmiksche/.Trash/...
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Can't delete corrupted .png.icloud in MacBook Pro M1
Recently one of my friends sent me some screenshot files from WhatsApp and I downloaded it to my MacBook, those files were screenshot.png.icloud files. Once they are on my downloads folder, I can't ...
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Forward-delete with Logitech K380 keyboard on macOS
I am using a Logitech K380 keyboard with my MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) running macOS Big Sur 11.6.
When I hold down the Function (fn) key while pressing the delete key on the built-in keyboard of ...
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Lost Whatsapp messages forever?
Regrettably I think I already know the answer to this question, but I thought it good to check just in case!
I deleted and reinstalled Whatsapp, but for some reason unknown to me iCloud hadn't taken a ...
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Why does deleting an iCloud photo on my Mac not delete it from my iPhone?
I have turned on iCloud Photos sync. When I remove a photo on the Mac, I can see that it’s also deleted from iCloud on the web. I would like it to disappear on my iPhone as well, but it’s still there.
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hidden files named "Icon?" on my macbook pro cannot be removed [duplicate]
In some of the folders, there is a hidden file Icon? (filesize 1.3MB; not icon of file, but filename being Icon?). Once I rename or remove it, it appears immediately again.
What created these Icon? ...
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How do i delete remnant build product of Xcode project?
I tried to make a widget on Xcode for macOS big sur.
The widget was meant to display the battery level of a bluetooth device connected to my macbook.
I gave up and deleted the project file but this is ...
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Terminal command to delete unnecessary logs
Avast antivirus says that my mac running Mojave has 1.25 GB of "unnecessary logs":
The Avast website does not provide information about their meaning.
What are they? How can I delete them ...
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How can I force my Mac to delete my trash which contains deeply nested locked folders?
I have hundreds of gigabytes of files that I manually (tried) to delete from an external hard drive. However I can't empty my trash, and no space has freed up on the drive.
When I try to empty my ...
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How do I delete files on user login?
I'm trying to set up a custom user that deletes files and folders in the home directories (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Movies and Pictures) when a user logs in/logs out, similar to how the ...
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Can’t delete "com.avira.scanservice.systemextension" leftover from AVIRA Free Antivirus
I uninstalled AVIRA Free Antivirus program (under current Catalina macOS), but one file "com.avira.scanservice.systemextension" couldn't be deleted because I don’t have the necessary rights.
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How to view and delete Mac download history
Yesterday I was told that every computer keeps track of everything you have ever downloaded.
My computer is a 2014 iMac that is running macOS v10.13 (High Sierra), so I went to apple.com and tried to ...
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Will Reset > Delete Data and Settings, prevent recovering my Data? if I am planning to sell my iPhone?
In Windows I know that when you delete a file or even format your PC, then some data can still be recovered from the hard disk using some tools.
Now I have iPhone 11 and I am planning to sell it. So I ...
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How to delete a macOS installer from Big Sur?
I downloaded the Mojave installer from my Big Sur machine to create a USB installer for an old Mac Mini.
I then deleted the installer from the Applications folder, but now whenever I try to empty the ...
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Can I delete files from my dyld folder?
I have a 13-inch Early 2015 MacBook Air (OS 11.2.5) with 128 GB, and I'm trying to clear some space for a game I want to install. So far, I've transferred my school assignment files into my external ...
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How to delete a file with prefix `~$`
I use the command ls in a terminal. I found this wired file with the prefix ~$.
When I was trying to remove it, the terminal responded No such file or directory.
I even tried renaming it, but it ...
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Ensure emptying 'Recently Deleted' succeeds?
I have deleted ~25,000 photos and videos from iPhone. They're now in 'Recently Deleted', and I want them permanently gone so I can transfer the remaining contents of the iPhone to a new iPhone.
When I ...
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Folder won't delete from Trash for "Can't delete "_ImageItems" because its pathname is too long"
I'm trying to empty my trash on my iMac. When I do, I can detete everything but 1 folder. The one folder seems to reference itself infinitely. Each time I click on the expander chevron, I get ...
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How to delete all voice memos stored on iphone in one go?
The Voice Memo app makes deleting several/all memos rather cumbersome as there doesn't seem to be an option to select all at once. SO how to delete all voice memos stored on my iPhone in one go?
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How to remove an app on iOS without overhead? [closed]
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I tried to remove an app from Settings -> iPhone Storage, but after each installation/un-installation cycle about 100-200mb adds up to disk space (example: after 10 cycles about 2GB might ...
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How to completely remove/uninstall “Disabled Software” from MacOS System Report when a provided uninstall tools + CleanMyMac etc or do not work? [duplicate]
I am having this problem for 5 straight days and tried everything mentioned in various forums without any success (on Catalina 10.15.7). Some help please as I need to completely uninstall/remove this ...
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Why is there no "Restore" or "put back" button in my trash?
There is no restore option when I right click a folder in my trash. Did I do something wrong with my computer to cause it to do away with this option?
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Admin authentication not working on Big Sur
Anything that I am trying to do that requires admin user access is failing. Whether it be moving an app to the trash or making a change to settings (app settings or system settings) it isn't working. ...
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