Emptying trash never completes

Itzawrap wrote:

This happens no matter what I place in the trash from 5 files to 25,000 files.

What kinds of files? Images, Pages docs, backup files from old Time Machine drives. Why would it matter? Time is time and these deletions take forever. Never in my 40+ years on Macs has emptying the trash taken so long.

Do you have some ideas?

Well and with Respect which is genuine

40 Years using OS X, macOS and still trying to Prune Snap Shots from the Time Machine Backup Drive ?

The user no doubt is very aware that things have changed over the years regarding Time Machine Utility

The Drive itself, used in TM Backup is Marked as READ ONLY

Yes, the User may have grabbed 1 Snap Shot or 2 or 3 or more and put in the Trash

But, they will not Delete not matter how hard you try.

Added, doing so may or may not Corrupt or Compromise the Index files on the Drive.

Should that happen and hopefully not, ALL the Snap Shots could be rendered Useless

Should that occur, the only option is to Reformat the Drive and start a New Regime from Scratch

Follow on and refer to some posting regrind Removing Snap Sot from TM Backus drive and arrive at your own conclusions

link below

https://discussions.apple.com/search?q=remove%20snaps%20shot%20from%20TM%20backup%20drive&source=aml&origin=asc_serp

I also have problem with several folders in my Bin which will not delete no matter what I do. I can not find their origin or take them back out of the Bin to restore them to their 'original' place. Other new items consigned to the trash delete as usual. MacBook Pro M1 14 in, Venturs 13.2.1.

Any way out of this to have my Bin completely empty. Etrecheck says nothing amiss.

Advice please.

No issues on two different M1 Machines ( 1 M1 MBA other M1 Mac Mini ) and 1 M2 MBA machine all running Ventura 13.2.1.

Guess it depends on what Exactly was placed in the Trash.

Care to share ?