Delete Trash: Terminal & Keyboard Short Cut
Jul 26th, 2008 by LiveVista
www.itechster.com in this short tutorial I will show you a few different ways to delete items from your trash bin that you system may think are still in use due to a network or hard drive that may have been disconnected. Even disconnected improperly.
Terminal commands:
1st: sudo rm -rf
then drag item to terminal hit enter then enter your password.
or
2nd. sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
hit enter the put in password.
or
3rd. sudo rm -rf /.Trash
hit enter then put in password.
keyboard shortcut hold OPTION key while you select delete trash from the menu.