Gonna have to go through terminal on this one... Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type:
cd /Volumes/(name of your storage drive) cd Users sudo rm -rF (user folder you wish to delete) [You'll have to enter your password after this] and that should do if I recall correctly. Bryan On May 3, 2006, at 10:12 AM, b3 wrote: > now that finals are over, i'm finally sending in the powerbook for > repair, but i've made one small mistake. > > I have an external firewire drive that i have in two partitions, > storage and backup. > I use SuperDuper! to make scheduled nightly bootable backups, just > in case. > last night I forgot to plug in the drive so i had to do a manual > backup today. > > except, I accidently started the backup to the storage drive. I > caught it after 11 gigs had been copied, and then started the > regular backup where it should be. > > But now, I have 11 gigs of info in a 'Users' folder on my storage > drive that I can't delete because it says that I don't have > sufficient privileges for the user. > any idea how to reclaim the space without wiping the whole partition? > > Rick > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
