A learned friend Jim gave me this as a solution and it worked - - - so simple, and after months of trying to convince myselfi t didn't matter.

My correspondence w/ Jim follows:

ope the terminal(Applications:Utilities)
type the following:
rm -f

leave a blank space after the -f
drag the file onto the Terminal window
press return


I've had the same thing happen. Usually it is a file that has been corrupted and doesn't know what it's doing. rm is the command line equivilant of the trash (ReMove), but with the -f It doesnt check to see what is going on, or what the file thinks is going on :)


On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:55:06 -0800, robert rakita wrote:
 Do you know what gives here?
 The attachment shows two downloads that I cannot get off the desktop
 without generating the alert shown -booting in 9 they do not appear-
 in osx nothing running but the finder and the alert gives the same
 results. Cannot put them in a folder or move to the HD to be
 potentially visible in 9 and maybe removed.
 Did things like run disk first aid,reset permissions-nothing .

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