After some dusting up of my laptop hard drive, I ended up with about 80 gigabytes to clean up from the Trashcan.
Using the MacOS interface was taking a long time. A very … long.. time. As in more than six hours and barely a dent in the volume of files to delete.
The solution?
Use the command line and the dreaded ‘rm -r’ command.
To do that safely.
[code] 1- Open the console2- Make sure you go to the trash: cd ~/.Trash
3- Delete the files: rm -r *
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This took care of the files in minutes.