[PRODIG] Stubborn folder in OS X 10.2 Trashcan won't go

[Morten Brakestad]

Dear prodiggers,

I have trouble getting rid of a folder in my trashcan called "Ibook" - a "left-over" after I backed up my Ibook to my external Lacie FW HD (60GB blue&silver) a while ago. (I may have been running OS 9 at the time, and seem to remember I had some trouble with the drive "freezing" on me while copying so I had to restart and do it all over. That may be the source of the trouble.) After I tried to delete the old backup, the folder shows up on my G4 whenever I mount the Lacie drive. Even worse, now it stays there even after I dismount the Lacie HD, possibly because I tried to drag the file to the desktop, putting it into another folder to trash it again without success. I have tried both the rm -Rf command in Terminal and the freeware program Trash it!, but none of them manages to delete the file. I am getting the message "folder/directory not empty", although it shows up empty, with 0 kb. Any suggestions?

TIA
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Regards,

Morten Brakestad
Ullev�lsveien 56 E
N-0454 Oslo
Norway
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