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I got my new external RAID Dual up and running, and copied my Pictures folder to it. Then I dragged my iMac HD original Pictures to the Trash. That was more than 24 hours ago. I'm still getting a box that says "Moving 'Pictures' to 'Trash'".
Should it take this long? There's no progress bar or anything to tell me that anything is really happening, and Get Info tells me the Pictures folder is still 343GB.
What's up with that?
/Mr Lynn
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Patience grass hopper. Yes it takes a long time.
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The formula is simple:
TimeItTakes = TimeYouHave X 1.56
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It shouldn't take that long. I think it should take longer to empty the trash than to move items to it.
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S. Pupp wrote:
Time to cancel, and delete via the terminal.
OSX has become a PITA.
Long live OS9!
I don't know how to do that.
I do have a computer that runs OS9. But it won't help here. I'm runing 10.12.6 on the iMac.
/Mr Lynn
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The Finder is not great at moving lots of small files, especially if you haven't rebooted for awhile.
Try relaunching the Finder via the Force Quit option. That will abort the copy-operation and if it hasn't crashed in a particularly bad way then it should simply resume in a few seconds.
Then reboot.
Then try trashing the contents of the Pictures folder again.
If it stalls after that then I'm inclined to believe that you have directory corruption or physical drive problems.
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Its not really the size of the files as much as the number of files. I agree with others that suspect a problem.
It might be better to move a few folders at a time within that folder.
Using the command line to `rm the motherfucker` can sometimes succeed where the finder fails.
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....you don't need to tip the garbagemen.....that is there job.....my parents would always tip them so they would dump the 'extra' garbage when they cleaned up.......
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Well,
this is interesting!
I decided to follow Sarcany's procedure, so quit out of most applications that were running. Before I could attempt a Force-Quit of the Finder, I got this message:
“Pictures” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by macOS.
So all this time the OS was trying to tell me
that?
But of course, I didn't 'modify or delete' the Pictures folder; I copied it onto an external drive. But the stupid OS doesn't know that it's been moved. Just that I want to delete it.
Or something. What do I do now? Do I just try deleting folders from within the Pictures folder, as mattkime suggested? I guess that would leave the sacrosanct Pictures folder, even if empty. Then what about the one on the RAID drive? Should I rename it? Or is there a way to tell the OS that 'Pictures' is in a new location? Could I turn the 'Pictures' folder on the internal HD into an Alias for the one on the RAID drive?
I've always thought that computers were basically inscrutable. I think this may be confirming it. . . :confused:
/Mr Lynn
