Quickly Empty Trash in Mac OS X
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Mar 15, 2026119557 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Emptying the trash in OS X can be a long process, especially If you have lots of items (like me). This is after 5 minutes: Is there a way to quickly empty the trash, or make the process a whole lot quicker?
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If you do it through the Terminal it is nearly always considerably faster: However it can be noted that this won't delete files that appear in your Trash from external hard drives, other partitions, etc. Those files are stored at where USER_ID is yo…
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