Dear group, Many thanks for all your help! Lee, tried your steps again, as the BatChmod didn't work. One time I entered into the terminal the 'cd Desktop', I was able to enter 'ls' after that, but nothing happened like it did last night, showing my desktop files. The next time I entered the same info, I got the message: couldn't find a working desktop! (or something along those lines;;; hopefully I haven't inadvertently messed up something majorly important in these processes!!). As for Jerry's suggestion, this morning the "other" option was available, but when I got to the desktop, none of those files were there. And as for the other Jerry's suggestion that I turn the super user back off, I don't know what password field I was supposed to enter * into...
Encountered another problem trying to trash Internet Explorer: some of the files are missing, which means I can't move that item to the trash now, either. I can't imagine why the -43 error code keeps popping up, but that is the same reason I cannot move those desktop folders to the trash as well...sigh! Am willing to try other suggestions, if you've got them. Cathy > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Lee > Larson > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:50 PM > To: Macgroup > Subject: Re: MacGroup: force to trash [bcc][faked-from] > > 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/20051011/e0879c71/attachment.html
