A Strange Issue. Help Please!

[rpmurray]

It seems something is messing up the contextual menu (it's missing items like Move to Trash). Do you see this same behaviour when you right click any file not in a search window?

[loukingjr]

I agree with rpmurray. Something is definitely wrong with the contextual menu. Either you have a third party extension that is causing problems or your OSX install is bad.

[RJW1979]

Thanks to everyone for your help, support & advice yet after trying all the above I still cannot get rid of these files.

To that end I will just reformat my SSD and put OSX on all fresh and never go within 1000 miles of the true trash which is virtualbox ever again!

Regards all and thanks again

[RJW1979]

It seems something is messing up the contextual menu (it's missing items like Move to Trash). Do you see this same behaviour when you right click any file not in a search window?

No it only happens with those two vdi, contextual menu works fine with everything else!

[loukingjr]

Thanks to everyone for your help, support & advice yet after trying all the above I still cannot get rid of these files.

To that end I will just reformat my SSD and put OSX on all fresh and never go within 1000 miles of the true trash which is virtualbox ever again!

Regards all and thanks again

It never ceases to amaze me that when end users, 99% of the time, manage to screw something up, want to blame either the hardware or software. I still think people should be required to obtain a Computer Operator's License before being allowed to purchase a computer.

[RJW1979]

Thanks to everyone for your help, support & advice yet after trying all the above I still cannot get rid of these files.

To that end I will just reformat my SSD and put OSX on all fresh and never go within 1000 miles of the true trash which is virtualbox ever again!

Regards all and thanks again

It never ceases to amaze me that when end users, 99% of the time, manage to screw something up, want to blame either the hardware or software. I still think people should be required to obtain a Computer Operator's License before being allowed to purchase a computer.

If you can suggest a solution be my guest but please don't post comments like that as this is not something I have done as I can see and support is rubbish for such an issue.

[loukingjr]

Thanks to everyone for your help, support & advice yet after trying all the above I still cannot get rid of these files.

To that end I will just reformat my SSD and put OSX on all fresh and never go within 1000 miles of the true trash which is virtualbox ever again!

Regards all and thanks again

It never ceases to amaze me that when end users, 99% of the time, manage to screw something up, want to blame either the hardware or software. I still think people should be required to obtain a Computer Operator's License before being allowed to purchase a computer.

If you can suggest a solution be my guest but please don't post comments like that as this is not something I have done as I can see and support is rubbish for such an issue.

so it's perfectly fine for you to call a piece of software that works perfectly fine for hundreds or thousands of users "trash" but you want to object to my post? got it.

[mpack]

Ahem. Order, order. Lets stick to the question.

@RJW1979, if you are unhappy with the level of (free) support given to non customers on this site, then by all means do go elsewhere.

[loukingjr]

Ahem. Order, order. Lets stick to the question.

good idea.

[RJW1979]

I will

As I said, thanks to those people who were kind enough to suggest possible solutions to my problem.

And those giving me grief, well you can guess my response to you

[nmiller]

A couple of suggestions to OP:

1) it could just be that these .vdi are in the trash. Mac OS X will not reclaim disk space until you empty the trash.
2) if your home directory is encrypted (vs. full disk encryption), you will also need to log out and log back in to recover disk space, after you empty the trash.

I cannot recommend only encrypting your home directory, as there are a number of other oddities with doing so besides the seriously annoying one above. If you need encryption, use the whole disk encryption available in Mountain Lion.

HTH.