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 ...

Most Android apps have a trash or recycle bin to store the deleted files temporarily. As such, you’ll want to empty the trash on your Android phone to reclaim your storage space. Sadly, emptying the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emptying the trash prevents unauthorized access to your sensitive and proprietary business data. Deleting a file using the standard method of emptying the trash can leave your data vulnerable to ...

Reader Jim Young has a trash that’s starting to stink up the place. He writes: I found that I was running out of space on my hard drive so I located some large ...

While various problems such as those we've previously covered can happen to the OS X trash, there are some built-in behaviors that may appear as a problem if they are activated when people do not know ...

The iPhone comes with a variety of applications pre-installed, including the Mailbox application. This application enables you to send and receive email messages on your phone. You may have multiple ...

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 ...