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 ...

You delete a mountain of old newsletters, sweep them into Trash, and hit Empty. For a blissful moment, the folder looks clear. Then, bam, messages reappear like socks after laundry day. If Yahoo Mail ...

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 ...

Reader Collin Merrill would like to automate a common, but potentially risky, task on his Mac. He writes: I was just wondering if you had an Automator workflow to automatically empty the trash. I’m ...

Whenever I empy the trash, a message comes up saying that "the operation could not be completed because item "501" is in use". When I open up the trash folder, I see nothing inside of it even though ...