Have you tried rebooting first, then empty trash? Otherwise, to answer your "bare essentials" question... From Mac Help: "Start up in Safe Mode (Only essential Mac OS X items are started. Some features and applications might not work correctly.) Hold down the Shift key immediately after the startup tone, and release when you see the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear)."
Regards, Russ Preston On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:01 PM, Profile wrote: > I need help trying to empty the trash. In making a copy of some > files I found that I couldn't copy them to the firewire drive, > saying that "code3dig" was busy. I had no idea what that was, so > to find out I made a copy of the entire folder, then put the > original in the trash and emptied. Ahhhh, I couldn't empty several > of the files, "code3dig" was busy. > > It seems that an old forms design program "Informed" (That I have > not used in years) has a font by the name of code3Dig that is in > the Sample Bar Code Fonts. Now this has never appeared before, I > have made copies of that folder forever but now somehow this bar > code font is active. > > I have tried everything I can think of to empty the trash. I have > completely gotten rid of all the Informed folders, backup folders, > etc. and according to Spotlight the only "Informed" items on the > machine are in the trash, but I can't empty. Years ago you could > hold down on a key combination and start with just the bare > extensions, and often this would allow you to do what was needed, > but I don't know how to either "quit" the font, or override the > stopping of the emptying. > > Any help on how to do this would sure be appreciated, many thanks. > > John R. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 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>
