Mac OS X Can't remove file

[Clayburn W. Juniel, III]

I have some files in the trash of my root user that can't delete. I can't
even remove them from the trash. Does anyone have any Idea how I can
delete them. Thanks.

[Michael]

"Clayburn W. Juniel, III" <cl...@home.com> wrote in message
news:clay3-18040...@192.168.1.2...

> I have some files in the trash of my root user that can't delete. I can't
> even remove them from the trash. Does anyone have any Idea how I can
> delete them. Thanks.

Try two things:
1. Move the files out of the trash and back onto their parent drives.
Restart in OS 9.1. Move them to the trash and option delete them.
2. Try 'get info' on the files in OS X. They are probably locked. Unlock
them and then empty trash.

MikeT

[Chris Dahler]

It's possible, of course, that there is a good reason why the system doesn't
want to let you delete the files, so be careful. But if you really want to
get rid of them, start up Terminal, type:

cd ~/.Trash

Then type:

ls

For each file you want to delete, type:

sudo rm <filename>

and type your password when requested. If the filename consists of words
separated by spaces, enclose the file name in single quotes. The files will
be gone forever.

Chris

[Clayburn W. Juniel, III]

Thanks for all the suggestions. But nothing worked. When I dragged the
folder out of the trash, it was copied to the desktop with the original
still in the trash. When I put it back in the trash there were two of
them. I have found out what casued this. From Mac OS X I updated
AppleWorks to 6.1.2? I think this corrupted the file system in some way.
Others should be warned.

On another matter I think installing OpenBase is what casues privileges to
be removed from the applications folder.