On Mountain Lion, Trash doesn't Empty

there is a file stuck in the trash

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This is what it shows when i do 'Get Info'

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When i 'Empty' the trash

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The sound plays, the trash window disappears, but the Trash icon doesn't appear empty and the file is still there when i reopen the trash. enter image description hereenter image description here

I've tried the terminal enter image description here

According to the terminal, there is no file in the Trash folder. What am i missing? How can i solve this?

EDIT So, i found out that the file is actually in another volume and as the Trash shows the 'trash' for all volumes, the file is being shown in the trash.

So, the file is in the Trash for my Bootcamp volume [/Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes/501]

I try deleting it from the terminal enter image description here

but its still there enter image description here

what do i do?


The Trash contains files from different volumes. Try running…

rm -rfv /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes/*

Depending on drive permissions, this may have to be run using sudo.


One simple idea first: hold down the option (alt) key as you choose Finder > Empty Trash (see Apple's HT1526).

If that doesn't work, I noticed that if you look closely in your Get Info screenshot, you can see that the file is actually in /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes/501, not ~/.Trash.

I'd try rm -f /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.Trashes/501/2.Broke.Girls.S02E19.HDTV.XvID-AFG