I’ve got a couple of files (empty directories) in the Trash I can’t delete. I own them, the mode is 777 and whether I use Empty Trash or use rm from the command line (with sudo or running as root) I get “Permission denied”. I tried booting into recovery mode and setting csrutil to disabled but that did nothing. Any ideas? It’s not the end of the world but every time I empty the trash I have to deal with the dialog box about not being able to delete them.
Try booting into Recovery and use Terminal to rm -rf.
Did that, as mentioned in the question.
You said you disabled SIP in Recovery. You did not say you actually tried to delete from Recovery.
I did indeed try deleting them from Recovery with no success.
Try: sudo chflags nochg the_file
Then try to delete the_file
The command should be
nouchgand it didn’t do anything.