HOW TO PERMANENTLY DELETE FILES ON MAC
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Thank you, I was worried to use a sudo command in terminal on my own without really knowing much about Unix, but I had a large backup file that I've been unable to delete traditionally and this worked perfect.
Thanks again!
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@enn463 Yes it does.
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thanks
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Thank you very much! I had ~300 GB worth of info. to delete and you have saved me so much time. Thank you!
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very helpful
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this really helped me free up space in my mac! thanks again! \m/
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@enn463 yeah it does
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it want let me type my password?:( please help.
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I TRIED DOING THIS ON MY SCHOOL COMPUTER AND IT FUCKING REPORTED ME
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how come sometimes when I type in the sudo rm -R etc that it says, "unlink file". when I see this message, I cannot perform the rest of the steps. please respond
Thank you so much! But what about internet history files? How do you delete those off your hard drive?
hnfan17 1 year ago
@hnfan17 to delete your internet history you need to go to you web browsers properties
ipwnu667 1 year ago
where can i find the compressed files so i can permanently delete them?
chaddexter 1 year ago
@chaddexter i dont think u can do that by you self i think you will need to go to an apple store and tell then you accidently deleted files so they can try to get them back
but trying to get them by your self it will be a hard process if you dont have the right recovery programs
ipwnu667 1 year ago
is it possible to delete files from trash selectively? cuz if I empty them everything's gonna be gone.. i only wanna delete selected files permanently
InsideSG 1 year ago
@InsideSG yes it is possible just drag the files u want to delete to terminal
ipwnu667 1 year ago