Title: Empty Trash
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Empty Trash

 *  [misterfancy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fancypeeps/)
 * (@fancypeeps)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-trash-1/)
 * I’m having issues Emptying my trash folder for my posts. There are over 3,000
   posts in my trash and everytime I try to empty it it just freezes. I tried to
   delete about 100 of them using the bulk action method but it just freezes too.
 * Is there anyway to delete the trash using FTP?

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 *  [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kidsguide/)
 * (@kidsguide)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-trash-1/#post-5236816)
 * I don’t think there is any way to do this via FTP.
 * Have you tried:
    -deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem.
   If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic
   plugin(s). -switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Matthew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kidsguide/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-trash-1/#post-5236816)
 * Status: not resolved

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