Try creating a text command that only deletes files starting with A. Finally, if the whole job takes too long, break it up. Again, use a Terminal or CMD text interface to do it.ģ.
Is it possible to take the HD out, and use it as an external drive on some other computer? That might work a bit better. I'm not skilled enough to give the right command to you, but it was similar to the OSX command.Ģ. I had to delete 500,000 small files on an old XP machine, and it was impossible in Windows, but a CMD command did the job in about an hour or two. Do it via a CMD command (windows version of Terminal).
Why does advanced mac cleaner keep coming back from trash windows#
Try going back to Windows and deleting them there. The files are some damned place on this one partitioned drive but where and who is able to actually deal with them remains in international dispute. So the Recycle Bin says the files are GONE and Trash Can won't empty. Windows passed it off to Mac and thinks its all done. So, I can't do anything with it in XP booting to C: because it is NOT there anymore. It did do what windows would not do, which was delete it, but OSX wants to CHECK IT before it actually deletes it. I then used finder to remove that folder. So I moved them to one directory and booted to OSX hoping that Mac wouldn't have the problems that XP is so well known for having. I tried to clean it up there and could not. I ran a wipe program which crashed and left all these random data files with long names and random extensions. The problem began over there on the XP C: drive. Perhaps something in the details will present a clearer picture. Time for, as Paul Harvey used to say, "The REST of the Story". OK, I guess this is not near as easy as I had hoped.
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