I deleted a system directory because Carbon Copy Cloner was unable to back it up and suggested replacing it. After deleting and restarting it was rebuilt by the system. However I could not delete the directory from the trash using standard methods or Terminal commands - even logged in as root. Even after disabling System Integrity Protection I had no luck.
Finder says: The operation can’t be completed because the item “powerlog” is in use.
File was located here:
private>var>db>powerlog>
The directory that was recreated by the system contains subfolders and files but the directory in the trash has none:
sh-3.2# ls -la /Users/admin/Desktop/powerlog
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 96 Oct 29 16:37 .
drwx------+ 9 admin staff 288 Nov 14 13:18 ..
Attempting rm -R give this result:
sh-3.2# rm -R /Users/admin/.Trash/powerlog
rm: /Users/admin/.Trash/powerlog: Directory not empty
I could not delete it after logging in as root either.
It appears no application is using the folder:
sh-3.2# lsof /Users/admin/.Trash/powerlog
sh-3.2#
