On Feb 21, 2006, at 7:08 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > When I tried to trash them, I got message: "This operation could > not be completed because the item is owned by root." Hmm. I thot > *I* owned everything on this Mac. Does this mean I have to > reformat the HD, or is there another way? Maybe I have to live > with it? Much thanks, as usual.
There are several programs on Versiontracker [1] that will clean this kind of stuff out of your trash. Go there and do a search on trash. I can't recommend any of them because I don't use them. Problems like this are very easy to solve using the terminal. [1] <http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php? mode=basic&action=search&str=trash&plt%5B%5D=macosx&x=0&y=0> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060221/b8725743/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2398 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060221/b8725743/attachment.bin
