Running 10.2.4, I have a folder in my trash can that has no visible contents and some invisible files that I cannot get rid of. I tried the latest version of Trash It downloaded from VersionTracker. Nothing. I followed the advice from April 3 of Schoun Regan in the terminal program.
Here?s what happened: Last login: Thu Apr 10 18:15:47 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! [Robert-Kleins-Computer:~] robertklein% cd .Trash .Trash: No such file or directory. [Robert-Kleins-Computer:~] robertklein% chflags nouchg*.* chflags: No match. [Robert-Kleins-Computer:~] robertklein% sudo rm*.* sudo: No match. [Robert-Kleins-Computer:~] robertklein% ls -la total 40 drwxr-xr-x 15 robertkl staff 510 Apr 10 18:06 . drwxrwxr-t 5 root wheel 170 Feb 13 19:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 robertkl staff 3 Jan 7 21:14 .CFUserTextEncoding -rwxr-xr-x 1 robertkl staff 6148 Mar 1 09:44 .DS_Store -rw-r--r-- 1 robertkl staff 0 Feb 13 19:22 .MCXLC -rw-r--r-- 1 robertkl staff 26 Apr 9 21:15 .lpoptions drwx------ 27 robertkl staff 918 Apr 10 18:20 Desktop drwx------ 11 robertkl staff 374 Mar 23 20:44 Documents drwx------ 29 robertkl staff 986 Apr 10 18:01 Library drwx------ 3 robertkl staff 102 Jan 7 21:14 Movies drwx------ 466 robertkl staff 15844 Jan 8 11:16 Music drwx------ 5 robertkl staff 170 Feb 8 10:43 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 4 robertkl staff 136 Jan 7 21:14 Public lrwxr-xr-x 1 robertkl staff 61 Apr 10 18:06 Send Registration -> /Users/robertklein/Library/Assistants/Send Registration.setup drwxr-xr-x 5 robertkl staff 170 Jan 7 21:14 Sites [Robert-Kleins-Computer:~] robertklein% I was never prompted for the password. Needless to say, the stuff is still in the trash can. Other items get trashed OK, but the stubborn ones stay. It seems to be the same 7 files that I have to hit ?continue? for when I try to empty the trash the conventional way, the message being that I don?t have sufficient privileges. I had tried something similar to this from the MacAddict OS X bugs issue a few months ago, obviously to no avail. I have fixed privileges on several occasions. Nada. When I go through a OS 9 startup, the trash can is empty. Any help would be appreciated. Please cc me off-list as I am on the digest list and won?t see your response until tomorrow at 5 pm. Thanks, Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030410/1c1f343f/attachment.html
