On 3/26/04 4:35 PM, Dan Crutcher at dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote: > On one of our G3 iMacs at work we have a corrupted file that is causing > some problems and I cannot find any way to get rid of it. > > Doing a "Get Info" shows that the file is 833 GB, which would be seem > rather impossible on a computer with a 5 GB hard drive, but that's what > it says. This file started life as a printer preference file, but I > have since renamed it "Bad File." > > If I drag it to the trash and try to delete it, I get a "File is in > use" error message and it won't let me empty the trash. Holding down > the option key while emptying the trash does not work either. Nor can I > replace the file with another file of the same name (also gives a "file > in use" message). Norton's freezes up when it tries to deal with this > file. TechTool 3.5 recognizes it as a bad file, but says it can't > repair it, as does Disk Aid. > > Does anyone have any secret tricks for deleting undeletable files? > > The iMac is running OS 9.1.
Here is a guess. Try booting with another drive or CD and try deleting the file. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
