Trash gets frozen emptying. Home › Forums › Mac Forums › Trash gets frozen emptying. This topic has 1 reply, 1 voice, and was last updated 1 year, 2 months ago by Amanda. Viewing 1 reply thread Author Posts November 23, 2019 at 10:39 AM #86084 Reply JBGuest I have noticed that I need to relaunch finder for trash to close. I am running Catalina. What do I need to do to get it back to “normal”? November 23, 2019 at 10:59 AM #86087 Reply AmandaGuest Try restarting in Safe Mode (hold down the Shift key when booting up)–that usually fixes issues like this. Author Posts Viewing 1 reply thread Reply To: Reply #86087 in Trash gets frozen emptying. Your information: Name (required): Mail (will not be published) (required): Website: You may use these <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags and attributes: <a href="" title="" rel="" target=""> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <pre class=""> <em> <strong> <del datetime="" cite=""> <ins datetime="" cite=""> <ul> <ol start=""> <li> <img src="" border="" alt="" height="" width=""> //