What is VoiceTrigger and why is it in my Trash?

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What is VoiceTrigger and why is it in my Trash?

And why does the subfile in the VoiceTrigger folder, "SAT", not allow me to delete it?

When I use "Get Info" on the "SAT" folder, it shows "You have unknown access" under Sharing and Permissions. All other folders (/Trash/<name of home directory folder>/Library/VoiceTrigger/) show the permissions I expect, namely <name of home directory folder> is RW, a group named "staff" is R only, everyone is R only. Not sure where the group named "staff" came from, or if it is related to my trash emptying dilemma.

I've restarted and tried emptying trash, to no avail. Similarly, I've rebooted into safe mode, no luck. Booted into Recovery and ran Disk Utilities, same result. Used Unix commands ("sudo chmod -R =rw,+X /Trash", and "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*" to change permissions of trash folders/files back to "normal" and force trash to be emptied, respectively, and my luck has remained stubbornly on vacation (or possibly quiet quitting?).

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Yours in confusion,

- Stanley Ford

MacBook Pro

Posted on Sep 16, 2022 08:36 PM

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Sep 16, 2022 09:20 PM in response to Stanley_Ford

Quick update. I've checked in my home directory folder (my directory in Macintosh HD/Users/), and followed the directory into /Library/VoiceTrigger/SAT/ The directory "SAT" is just as coy as the one in my trash: appears to have no files or subdirectories, and when you use Get Info on it, you see "You have unknown access" under Sharing & Permissions. Basically, you can't do anything with SAT.

If I go out on a limb and assume (always dangerous, I know) that this has something to do with Siri, then I seem to have a copy of the contents of VoiceTrigger/SAT/ that is functioning within my home directory's Library/. Siri is working to the usual extent, presumably using the resources in <home directory name>/Library/VoiceTrigger/SAT/

To be able to clear my trash, I was able to move /VoiceTrigger/SAT/ from /Trash/ to an arbitrary folder on my desktop. But why can't I put it back in my /Trash/ and then delete it if it's redundant? Now I have a folder (named "fubar" of course) that I'd rather not have hanging around.

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