I had this weird thing happen to my MacBook Pro OSX+ over the last month: everything I put in the trash bin would refuse to budge when I was trying to clear it out.
I finally decided yesterday to visit an Apple store Genius and finally we figured out what it was. I had selected secure delete from the Finder > Preferences > Advanced > Empty Trash Securely
Apparently, when you're deleting securely it takes way longer to delete as it's really scrubbing stuff out. If you delete say five things at a time, it's all groovy. If you have, say 2,000 items *ahem* it just doesn't budge.
Better delete securely a little at a time or just take the secure checkmark off and just do a regular delete.
This was so simple I almost smacked my forehead. Thank Mr. Genius guy!
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