Greetings to all who chimed in!
First of all, let me say I feel a total idiot! In my last-ditch attempt
before throwing in the towel completely, I found I'd initially misread some
of your instructions, Jerry F, and when I went back through them, I found I
was able to trash the offending files, as well as Internet Explorer. I was
only able to do this once I'd moved them from the desktop to the hard drive
(no clue why it would work in one spot but not the other, these things
remain a mystery to me, and I'm resigned to that/I've accepted it, so long
as it's an issue I can work around)...And, although I couldn't figure out
where to enter the * that Jerry Y suggested to turn off super-user, I did
manage to arrive at the solution differently...Phew, sure couldn't have done
it without all your input, and it is much appreciated! Now I'm just hoping
I didn't mess things up too badly in the Terminal...Thanks again your all
your time and expertise, one & all!
Cathy Green
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> From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Jerry
> Freeman
> Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:42 AM
> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> Subject: Re: MacGroup: force to trash [bcc][faked-from]
>
> I agree with Jerry Y that BatChmod is your simplest way out...jf
>
> On Oct 10, 2005, at 11:50 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
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