Oh, how I feel for you! For about 6 months I had one file that appeared every day on my desktop and could not be trashed. Only recently it gave up the ghost , it probably died from repetition exhaustion. Still no clue. Marta
On Aug 22, 2006, at 20:01, 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> | 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>
