Emptying the trash... dialogue box hangs endlessly...

I don't think I'll be much help but would like to add my story - I started to get this after installing sonoma on my mac mini m2 - emptying trash box sliding left to right & never ending, click x to stop it and it's empty. Then two days after that I started to get a 'photos library copy.photoslibrary' folder appearing in the trash spontaneously. Delete it & it would come back next restart, or even a few seconds after deleting. Got call from Apple who agreed it looked like corruption (I'd already tried safe mode, and restoring sonoma keeping data), so I had to initialise disk, install latest system (in this case it offered ventura which I accepted) then reinstall data from time machine. All ok so far, and I won't try sonoma again for a while.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254751882?sortBy=oldest_first

Also, do you have a Carbon Copy Cloner application installed ?

If the SafetyNet Function enabled this that specific application ?

https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/frequently-asked-questions-about-carbon-copy-cloner-safetynet

Not mine

I'm having the same problem with the empty trash and also the "photos library" in the trash each time as well. This is definitely from updating to Sonoma. Apple, will there be a fix for this soon?

Afraid not. I restored ventura, then after a while thought I'd upgrade to sonoma, and ended up with the same problem. So I factory reset it, installed sonoma, and rebuilt everything myself, only restoring my data. I never reloaded my photos, the original problem I had. So I'm almost back to normal bar the photos app.

Sorry, what are you talking about? What about your photos?

I thought we're talking about the dialogue box hanging endlessly when emptying the trash.

For me, this has been fixed with the recent update of macOS Sonoma to Version 14.2 (23C64).

Looks like it has been fixed with the newest update of macOS Sonoma. Can you confirm that?

Same problem. Since before Sonoma.