Most of the above options will usually do the job in the vast majority of cases. The files may still be in the trash after restart, so restart and then go back and empty the trash again and the files should be gone. Obviously, the old standard fallback ploy of rebooting your machine will sever any ties to any running program no matter how tenuous, so restarting your machine can also do the job.
When the Finder has refreshed, you might find that the trash is now empty. The way to get out of this and back to work is to Relaunch the Finder, which if the Finder has hung up will be an option on the popup menu if you hold down the Command key while using the Right Mouse Button on the Finder icon in the Dock. Sometimes, if the reason for the file hangup is a Finder crash or anomaly of some type, this Secure Empty Trash process will also hang. It’s the digital equivalent of a shredder. Actually this is meant for deleting things that you don’t want to be recovered by disk recovery software, like personal financial information for example. The second thing you can try is “Secure Empty Trash.” Hold down the Command key while pressing the Right Mouse Button, and Empty Trash on the popup menu will turn into Secure Empty Trash. But if it doesn’t, you have to get more creative. Nothing else you try to do to the file will work. You have to eject or unmount the drive before you can delete the file. Note: A common problem is that a file you are trying to delete was actually from an open DMG disk image file. The way to make sure (and the first thing to check when this happens) is to close all other programs other than Finder and try emptying the trash again. Sometimes this can be as tenuous as a link to the file being in the recent files list in the program concerned.
Sometimes, despite your false impression the file is done with, it is actually still “in use,” that is to say referenced by a program that is still running. In this article we will be discussing the variety of ways you can get around this annoying message, empty the trash, and get on with your day. But often the file is not in use, you know it isn’t and yet the message is stubbornly persistent. Frustrating isn’t it?Īround seven times out of ten, the file is actually linked to a program, and there is a legitimate reason for this annoying message. We’ve all had it, that time when you try to empty your trash in OS X and the system tells you it can’t delete the files because they are “in use,” when as far as you are aware, they’re not.
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