osxrmdirectorynotempty

Using Finder, I was able to empty the trash can with the exception of one directory that remains even though emptying trash raises no error messages. After searching around I found quite a few examples for forcing the trash can to empty.

当使用" rm -rf "命令删除一个目录时，如果目录中包含其他文件或子目录，则会出现"directory not empty"的错误。 这是因为"-rf"参数会强制 删除目录 及其内容，但在目录不为空的情况下，无法删除目录。

Mac OS删除文件夹和文件的命令 rmdir删除空目录，不过一旦目录非空会提示 Directiry not empty 使用rm既可以删除文件又可以删除文件夹 删除文件夹（无论文件夹是否为空），使用 -rf 命令即可。 即：rm -rf 目录名字 -r 就是向下递归，不管有多少级目录，一并删除

To find out what files are in that directory use ls -a. The -a flag tells ls to list hidden files (aka "dot files"). Remove those files then rmdir can be used. Another option is to simply use rm -rf to recursively delete the directory and all of

The symlink populated a non-empty directory, but the client was unable to see or stat the symlink for the purpose of clearing out the directory before unlinking the directory.

Normally, an rm -rf will remove everything in a directory, recursively, so it wouldn't matter if it's empty or not. In this case, there are some things you might want to check:

In order to remove both a parent directory and a subdirectory of that parent, the subdirectory must be specified first so the parent directory is empty when rmdir tries to remove it.