How to force delete all files in the trash

I have some folders in the trash can and when I try to empty the trash it throws an error saying

Can't delete “dest” because its pathname is too long.

How can I force empty the trash can in macos big sur ?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Aug 8, 2021 12:46 PM

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mahdifaraji Author

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Posted on Aug 8, 2021 01:02 PM

I solved the issue by making sure the terminal had full access to the disk and ran this piece of code in the terminal :

rm -rvf ~/.Trash

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