Emptying Trash Hangs (was: very rare, in OS X)

[JELyon]

I had that happen to me whilst cleaning off a volume that was having 
the "keys out of order" issue, which I've come to dread. Copy files 
from damaged volume to good disk, delete files from damaged volume, and 
hang city.

I'd recommend a bout of Disk Warrioring, as, based on my experience, I 
would suspect there may be something wrong with the volume from which 
you're deleting files. Or you can use your favorite disk utility. As 
you prefer.

I also discovered another trick today - I had some apps that didn't 
want to shut down, even when I forced them to quit - so I tried the 
kill command at the unix prompt. I felt a rush of power and 
invincibility.

John Lyon

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 04:44 PM, Steve Wozniak wrote:

> This may be related. I emptied my trash just before reading this post. 
> Well, does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get rid of a 
> dialog box saying "Emptying the trash" and "Items Remaining 0"? It 
> won't go away.
> --