On Oct 10, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Green, Cathy wrote:

> I followed all Jerry's steps, but when got ready to log in again,  
> there was no "other" option to choose!  So I tried Lee's steps.   
> The rm command didn't work, but the sudo worked enough to tell me  
> there was no such file...any other ideas?
>
> (did you need to know these were folders on the desktop entitled  
> things such as "$$ StuffIt Temp 1128961545"  ?)

I think you're getting the error message because the file names  
contain spaces. Try putting the names in quotes; e.g.,

sudo rm -rf '$$ Stuffit Temp 1128961545'

This ought to work to remove anything.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: 
http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051010/a76e96c1/attachment.html
 

Reply via email to