Hi Nelson, There's another system utility that you might try before you go the [root user] route; Titanium Software's OnyX. It's free. The only requirement is that you be the admin for your machine.
< http://www.titanium.free.fr > (French/English) If you install it, launch and go to its top tool bar and click onto "Cleaning", and then the 'Trash' tab. There's a Force Delete choice of simple delete or secure delete. Do it a second time if it returns directories to review. Some functions require a restart immediately afterwards. Give it a try. Regards, Russ Preston On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Nelsn Helm wrote: > I want to empty the trash, which contains locked files on an external > firewire hard drive. > > I have used [command] [I], and unlock, which does not help > > I have used Terminal, but don't know how to find .Trashes on the > external HD. > > I have used Delete It, a shareware program, which advises me to log > in as "root user." > > > The files in question are mostly fonts, hundreds of them that came on > a music CD. > > -- > Nelson Helm
