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In my situation:

Unable to empty Trash on a MacBook with an external SSD mounted due to a .fuser_hidden file in the .Trashes directory or another directory below .Trashes

unfortunately none ofThank for the above suggestions, but nothing worked :(

for me. But I did findfound a solution however, move: I moved the external SSD to a PC running Windowswindows. Using the File Explorer with the View option(with "Hidden items" checked, navigate) I navigated to the .Trashes.Trashes directory andwas able to delete the .fuser_hidden.fuser_hidden file.

Finally found something Windows can do that Mac (at least in my situation) could not :)

Hope this helps!

In my situation:

Unable to empty Trash on a MacBook with an external SSD mounted due to a .fuser_hidden file in the .Trashes directory or another directory below .Trashes

unfortunately none of the above suggestions worked :(

I did find a solution however, move the external SSD to a PC running Windows. Using File Explorer with the View option "Hidden items" checked, navigate to the .Trashes directory and delete the .fuser_hidden file.

Finally found something Windows can do that Mac (at least in my situation) could not :)

Hope this helps!

Thank for the suggestions, but nothing worked for me. But I found a solution: I moved the external SSD to a PC running windows. Using the File Explorer (with "Hidden items" checked) I navigated to the .Trashes directory was able to delete the .fuser_hidden file.

Hope this helps!

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answered Sep 10, 2019 at 16:34

RobertC

In my situation:

Unable to empty Trash on a MacBook with an external SSD mounted due to a .fuser_hidden file in the .Trashes directory or another directory below .Trashes

unfortunately none of the above suggestions worked :(

Finally found something Windows can do that Mac (at least in my situation) could not :)

Hope this helps!