Ok, Gordon, that's what I was beginning to suspect.  I've already done a repair 
permissions twice.

I'm running mountain lion now, how would I go about reinstalling it from 
scratch, please?  Mark made us a usb stick with ml on it
On 2012-09-04, at 2:05 PM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Cait
> 
> This sounds like a pretty nasty systemic permissions issue.  I really would 
> suggest that you back up everything important on to external media as quickly 
> as you can. You may well end up having to reinstall from scratch, or from a 
> backup.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:59, Cait Furness <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Lately whenever I try to delete items from the trash in mail, on my mac as a 
> whole, or whenever I try to move items from my external drive onto my hard 
> disk, I get a dialog which says the operation can't be completed and it's an 
> error -50 and an ok button.  How do I fix this, please?
> 
> thanks,
> Caitlyn
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