Crash on Trash Empty

[Mike Adams]

I am running 10.2.6 and just recently find that every time I empty the trash the system crashes and I have to restart.

Does anyone have a solution, other than reinstalling the system?

Many thanks

 

[symphonix]

You might try doing a force empty of the trash from the terminal.
This requires you to enter a few commands from the terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal) that force delete the files from the trash folder.

First try running this command:

sudo rm -R ~/.Trash

(Capitalisation is important. I suggest copy and pasting this command into Terminal)
If that doesn't work, this thread has a script for force emptying the trash, though it is not very clearly explained:

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7342

 

[Randman]

There's also some apps (check versiontracker or macupdate) that will force empty the trash without having to go into terminal. Trash It is one that comes to mind that has worked well for me when something just doesn't want to leave. I believe Cocktail also has a force trash feature on it (I'm at work on a yucky PC right now, so I can't check).