can't empty the Trash because of locked elements and certain permissions

I want to well to empty the trash, but am getting blocked by two numbers, starting with:

(1) ''there are some elements locked in the trash. " Do you want to remove all items, including those locked or just unlocked items? »

Unlike previous messages or suggestions on the support Forum, this text box does not actually identify the locked objects, not their names, places or anything like that. Similarly, when I press Option with Secure Empty Trash, it scatters only my Finder window such that I can not select anything.

I have browsed through the trash looking for ASCII files or other weird characters and have removed these (created a new folder on the desktop), but this has not changed anything.  When I try to Secure Empty Trash again, the same note appears.

I tried the two options offered by this text box ('Remove all items' or 'Remove Unocked items'), but regardless of my choice, the following text is displayed:

(2) the operation cannot be performed because you have not granted access to some of the elements. »

I guess that brings me to permissions, but given that the article "troubleshooting permissions in Mac OS X - Apple support issues" has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple (from Jan 2016), I'm hoping to get information updated here.

Please help me!

MacBook using Mac OS X 10.10.5, with 8 GB

Have you tried to command + Option + delete?

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