Empty trash hanging

I have had this issue since getting my M2 Mac Mini. It has persisted through 2 Ventura updates. The emptying trash dialog displays indefinitely. When I cancel the empty trash via the dialog, the trash is emptied. I have run Disk Utility First Aid and no problems are found.

Try SafeBoot to all the system to run diagnostics, remove caches and fix issues it finds then log back in your normal account and test again.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

Same problem - same reply: startup in Safe Mode and then reboot normally.

It wasn't clear from the earlier post that merely booting into safe mode is the way to fix this. It worked. Thanks!