Dan, Reboot, and if you still can't delete then start with the Apple disk and you should be able to get rid of it from there, but I think the rebooting will help.
John R. On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:35 PM, Dan Crutcher 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. > > Dan > > > > > > | 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>. > | 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>.
