Mac OS X – Files won’t go in the Trash

Most likely your Trash folder is not owned by you anymore. To fix:

  1. Open Terminal.app, and type in the next 3 commands:
  2. sudo chown <your_user_name>:staff ~/.Trash
  3. sudo chmod 700 ~/.Trash
  4. killall Finder

2 Comments

  1. shazron says:

    Ok, perhaps these steps are really not needed. Try a “killall Finder” first before you do anything, and see if it fixes it.

  2. Cross says:

    Thanks a lot!!!

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