I have an ntfs partition mounted in ubuntu and this doesn't empty its trash. The nautilus trash can do that (as it shows an aggregated view of all trashes from all disks).

The solution might be to list all mounted drives (drivelist), find the correct location of trash folders on these (e.g. /mnt/drive123/.Trash-1000/) and clean all of them.

If you're interested I could try to make a PR with this sometime.

$ empty-trash 
Command failed: osascript -e tell app "Finder" to empty trash
21:32: execution error: Finder got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)

Am I missing something?

BTW:

$ type emptytrash 
emptytrash is aliased to `sudo rm -rfv /Volumes/*/.Trashes; sudo rm -rfv ~/.Trash; sudo rm -rfv /private/var/log/asl/*.asl'

I am getting this error

> empty-trash
Command failed: osascript -e tell app "Finder" to empty trash
21:32: execution error: „Finder“ hat einen Fehler erhalten: Der Vorgang kann nicht abgeschlossen werden. (-128)

I tried to fix this myself, but unfortunately run-applescript does not support the multi line apple script

tell application "Finder" 
    set itemCount to count of items in the trash
    if itemCount > 0 then
        empty the trash
    end if
end tell

and fs.readdir("/Users/miladiir/.Trash") returns null despite the folder being non empty. I think NodeJS and the Mac User Trashes are not friends. This might be some weird quirk on the new OS and rootless, but I don't know.

To clarify: I would like to run this script automated, so it shouldn't throw errors if they are not critical. Just surprising is not an option.

I would get it if you think this completely overcomplicates stuff, But I would like to have a verbose function that prints out the current available storage space (one line for each mounted drive), followed by a log of each file that gets deleted (could be limited to only the top-level files and folders) and concluded with a line with the current storage space now that the trash has been emptied (again, one separate line for each mounted drive).

Python required? Not anymore! You could probably merge this pretty safely but do note that there isn't support for external drives yet, although it's probably highly unlikely someone will run this from an USB drive or likewise. There will be a fix for that pretty soon anyway.

This is not really an issue, but I found Sophos Home (a free anti-virus product), removed an old version of empty-trash from .npm cache and tag it as NirCmd (PUA, as in potentially unwanted app), even though I am on macOS.

This is not consistent across releases or even Sophos itself (see the virustotal link, enterprise version didn't warn users), if I look at logs I see internally Sophos still consider latest release to be PUA, but didn't warning users, presumably it doesn't cross a certain score threshold.

Anyway, just reporting and closing this issue...

Reference:

• https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/adware-and-puas/NirCmd/detailed-analysis.aspx
• https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2d474cc0c764c869bc3728f26bc20879f892ecc8751c4d403f6333b19b3fb3e3/analysis/1483718593/