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June 5, 2009 | 10:31 AM

Free Fix for Trash Troubles…

The other day I was cleaning up my hard disks by throwing away unneeded files and folders. When I tried to empty the Trash, this is what I saw:

An hour later there were still 2,775,000+ files left to be deleted. At that rate it would have taken several months to empty the trash… so I downloaded a little app called Super Empty Trash, launched it, selected All Volumes from its Delete files from window:

A few minutes later all 2.75 million files and folders were gone!

Kudos to SuperEmptyTrash’s creator, Marco Balestra, for making such a useful little tool and for distributing it at no charge. Thanks, Marco!

Download it here: SuperEmptyTrash for Mac OS X.

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