From: Jim Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've got some documents and a couple of compressed folders on my desktop
that I can't delete. They were put there when I was attempting to download
them from the Mac OSX download site. The downloads hung, and I purged the
Download Manager files, but can't delete these files. Every time I try to
put them in the trash, I get a "Trash" message window that says each item is
"being used by another task right now..." and to try again later. After
several days, numerous reboots, and running of permissions repair from the
installation CD, they're still there. I'm running 10.2.6 on a grape 333. How
do I get out of the GUI and get into Unix to delete these files? I've been
all over OSX Help and nothing I've found there seems to work. Help!
There's no need to go into the Terminal to delete these files, though you could. There are several alternate methods.
- If your machine can boot into OS 9, do so and delete the files from there.
- An easy way to remove troubling files like this is to download BatCHMod, and use the "Force Empty Trash" command in the file menu.
- If you do a "get info" on the files, you'll see an "Ownership and Permissions" option. Changing the ownership of the file to "Me" and permissions to all will usually fix the problem.
- Finally, the freeware "OnyX" program has an option to Force-Empty the trash.
_Chas_
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