How to Delete Many Locked Files on Mac From Trash (In Under 3 Mins)

May 29, 2021

1 min read

In this video I’ll show you step by step, how to quickly delete all the files from trash and speed up your computer for GOOD, you’ll learn:

How to expand hundreds of files in seconds
How to unlock hundreds of files in seconds
Eventually delete them all and save loads of space on your computer, for good!

This is an unexpected video after I’ve struggled to permanently delete lots of locked files from Trash for months.

If you are a video creator, filmmaker, designer (or a client of these people), you’ve most likely run into this issue before.

DropBox and a few other cloud services can offer trigger this issue when leaving different instances of their folders on your computer. To make matters worse, it’s even more complicated when you face lots of locked files placed in many different folders.

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Fei Wu

Fei Wu is the founder and CEO of Feisworld Media, a Massachusetts-based digital media company helping brands get discovered by people and by AI. An Adobe Global Ambassador and brand partner to ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and 50+ other tech and AI companies, she hosts the Feisworld Podcast (400+ episodes, 500K+ downloads — guests have included Seth Godin, Steve Wozniak, Chris Voss, and Arianna Huffington) and co-created the documentary Feisworld: Live Your Art on Amazon Prime. Fei writes for CNET, Lifehacker, and PCMag, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. She has been publishing on the internet since 2014 — long before AI discoverability had a name.

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