Several users have reported an issue in which files cannot be deleted from the Trash. Sometimes users may intentionally move files to the trash and then perform some operation that inadvertently ...

Like most people, if you have a base variant MacBook with 128 GB of storage, freeing up space on your Mac is probably a regular event in your calendar. And if you’re pretty good at deleting unwanted ...

Whenever you move a file on your Mac to the Trash, it stays there until you manually right-click (Ctrl-click) the trash icon and select Empty Trash. This system offers a useful fallback method if you ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. OS X El Capitan added a little-known feature that is sure to make Mac power users happy when it ...

We've shown you a few ways to clean up your Mac's hard drive, but Macworld reminds us of a very simple tip that many of us probably forget about often: empty the trash in your favorite iLife apps. We ...

In some cases, Mac OS X is inexplicably unable to delete certain files from the trash, or claims that a file is in use and cannot be deleted through the user has taken every measure to ensure the ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Geek Note: Once again, for lack of any questions from readers in the field, I turned to one of the questions asked by my ...

When you get rid of an item on your Mac like a file, image, or applicatoin, it goes into the Trash folder. Trash on MacOS is similar to Recycle Bin on Windows. Your items remain there until you empty ...