{"id":1928,"date":"2012-12-29T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T00:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/linfa\/work\/?p=881"},"modified":"2012-12-29T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T00:30:30","slug":"emptying-the-trash-is-taking-forever-on-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2012\/12\/29\/emptying-the-trash-is-taking-forever-on-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Emptying the trash is taking forever on MacOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some dusting up of my laptop hard drive, I ended up with about 80 gigabytes to clean up from the Trashcan.<\/p>\n<p>Using the MacOS interface was taking a long time. A very &#8230; long.. time. As in more than six hours and barely a dent in the volume of files to delete.<\/p>\n<p>The solution?<\/p>\n<p>Use the command line and the dreaded &#8216;rm -r&#8217; command.<\/p>\n<p>To do that safely.<\/p>\n[code]\n1- Open the console<br \/>\n2- Make sure you go to the trash: cd ~\/.Trash<br \/>\n3- Delete the files: rm -r *<br \/>\n[\/code]\n<p>This took care of the files in minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; 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&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/2012\/12\/29\/emptying-the-trash-is-taking-forever-on-macos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","category-uncategorized","tag-macos","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8frwa-v6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alquier.org\/laurent\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}