Emty trashcan in OSX

Meltdown

Meltdown

Musician and Apple Freak
I've got an emty Folder in the trash wich can't be deleted. Tried all the privileges and root-user stuff already. Also a few force trash utilities and renaming the folder. Nothing works.
Is there a way of deleting it via OS9?
If so i gather that it will be an invisible file in OS9. What file to look for?
Any thoughts on this?
 
Careful with the 'sudo rm' stuff, I just lost my entire Home folder to a command like that.
 
I get the reply "no match" in terminal.
????
Or must i substitute the * with the filename? Sure silly me.
If i do it asks for the password so i did.
Nothing happened. It's still there.
???
 
* is for EVERYTHING. so everyting you have in trash in that case. the sudo is for stubborn items, normally rm -rf ~/.Trash/* is enough. and right dlloyd, good not to play with terminal when you don't know what you are doing.

if you get a "no match", it is probably emptied already. wait for a moment the icon to update, or relaunch finder.
 
you could type "sudo rm -rf " (note the space after rf)

Then drag the folder from the trash into the terminal window. The correct path will then be displayed in the command line. Hit enter and type your pass when you're prompted for it.
 
I get this:

Welcome to Darwin!
[Melt-Downs-Computer:~] Username% sudo rm -rf/Volumes/Ti\ -\ Songs/.Trashes/501/test
Password:
rm: illegal option -- /
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[Melt-Downs-Computer:~] username%

Any thoughts?
 
I just put the file back where it belonged.
It was an invisible trash folder on one of my partitions. Thanks all for the help!
 
Yes, you do.
The command should look something like this:

sudo rm -rf /Users/username/.Trash/test.html
 
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