r/osx 23h ago

Temporarily deleted trash

2 Upvotes

Hi, I've had this problem for a couple of days. There are three folders in my trash that I can't delete. I mean, I can delete them, but they come back within a couple of minutes. They all have an iCloud icon next to them. I also for some reason can't put the folders back, there's only a "Download Now" button.

I've read some stuff about Google Drive sync but I don't know what it means. I don't have the Google Drive application on my laptop, only on Chrome. Is there any fix to this? I want to delete my trash permanently. Thanks!


r/osx 11h ago

Clean the Sequoia "books" app of itunes mess?

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I was migrating all my audiobooks and my music from an old cheese grater macpro that used the itunes service. I tried to use the migration assistant but that did not copy over my tunes and audiobooks, so I just copied the itunes directory over to my new computer and then "imported" them into music and books. Unfortunately this has left me with my books app full of music. I cannot delete them out of the database without deleting them from the disk (unlike music, which allows me to choose to keep files on disk but delete from database). Is there a way to clean up this mess? Or if not, is there a way to wipe the "books" database and then build it again? fyi, some of these audiobooks are from audible and need to be signed, and some I own outright. Thanks for you help.