I've owned every Mac made since 1990. Why is Ventura so slow at emptying the trash? I've restarted in safe mode - it always returns to the same hanging dialogue box. This is a new 14" M2. Nice computer. But this really annoys me. What has changed in the macOS that it takes this long?
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It’s not the trash warning dialogue staying open, it’s the emptying trash progress dialogue and it just never progresses. But eventually, if you wait long enough and close it, the trash is in fact empty.
FWIW, I'm only asking because I rarely ever see the "Emptying the Trash" window, much less have it stay open.
Try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally. Sometimes that will fix anomalies.
I’ve also been seeing this issue. For others reading the thread, I’ve been able to narrow it down to specific scenarios:
I think it has to do with how the metadata / directory data of the drive is stored in APFS vs HFS+.
Emptying the trash on HFS+ volumes continue to be speedy. For HFS+, size of a file doesn’t matter as much as the number of files (e.g. if you’ve got 100s of thousands then it’ll take time clearing it).
pkmusic wrote:
I close the box and the trash icon changes to empty.
Not sure what you mean when you say "close the box" but if you mean the Empty Trash dialog window, that will stay open forever until you either click the Empty Trash button or press the Return key.
You can disable the Empty Trash warning dialog in Finder > Settings… > Advanced.
I have the same "trash emptying forever" issue with Venture 13.6. It happens everytime I try to delete something. See below. In this case I trashed a small (under 2 MB) PDF. It will cycle endlessly. It should cycle through in a second. If I cancel out (hit the x) the trash cycle will complete. Clearly some kind of system bug.
The typical behaviour is that when I return to the computer the empty trash dialogue is still open. I close the box and the trash icon changes to empty. Just now, this was 3 hours later. I'm trashing data. Any data. From internal HD or external.
The fact that the Trash is emptying and not providing a Pop Up saying it Can Not emptyTrash, is a good sign.
It appears to me, like the real annoyance is more about the length of time " hanging dialogue box. " is presented ?
Terminal command
killall Dock
It will kill the Dock and reload
pkmusic wrote:
It’s not the trash warning dialogue staying open, it’s the emptying trash progress dialogue and it just never progresses. But eventually, if you wait long enough and close it, the trash is in fact empty.
Thank you for the clarification
Can not reproduce this behaviour on 2 M1 and 1 M2 Apple computers
Though, I do not ever attempt to Muck Around on a Time Machine Backup drive in a effort to Delete Snap Shots
Above only applies if that is what is being done
If not, disregard
My solution is to not allow trash to accumulate. I have no need for trash so I empty the can often. Apparently this anomaly is predicated on how full the can gets. Or so it seems to me as the only instances of slow emptying is when I've deleted mega amounts of data. In that case, I just go about my business and let it empty.
Same with with a mac mini M2 PRO OS 13.6.2 (22G417)
I need to click the cross to have it empty, without that it's stuck for hours.
And it's a new fresh mac from 1 month ago with a clean system without any gadget installed.
How slow is "incredibly slow" and what is it you are deleting?
pkmusic wrote:
But eventually, if you wait long enough and close it, the trash is in fact empty.
How do you "close it"?
MacBook Pro 14 running Ventura empties trash slowly
