No. Have you tried restarting?

Did you delete them yourself? TM cleans up regularly itself so you shouldn't need to touch them.

Download Onyx and it has a force empty trash option I think. Or you can do it from the command line of you're brave

Posted By: BerlinCanary on January 22nd 2017 at 20:44:36

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Does anyone have experience with deleted Time Machine backups clogging a Mac's trash bin? (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 22, 20:25:35
- No. Have you tried restarting? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 22, 20:44:36
  - That's a worry, Onyx is hanging on the disk verification (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 22, 21:50:06
    - Might take a little while; but, yes, a bit worrying... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 22, 21:58:33
      - It's gone through verification now, took its time (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 22, 22:00:52
        
        Phew (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 22, 23:28:58
  - I'll try onyx, thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 22, 21:10:49
- Do you find Time Machine useful? (General Chat) - APB, Jan 22, 20:32:28
  - Time machine is ok however if your mac dies then so do all your backups which is why (General Chat) - ghost of hucks, Jan 22, 22:11:13
  - I've never really used it properly (General Chat) - samcd84, Jan 22, 21:10:30
    - Basically it looks after itself (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 22, 21:26:37
  - Yes, dead easy to set up and works in the background without you noticing (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jan 22, 20:40:25

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