Thomas R. Kettler wrote:
> In article <2igkkre2zl8t.uhgdm21gwkdd.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> salgud <spamboy6547@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I copies the "My Do***ents" folder from my old PC to my new iMac to
keep
>> whatever I need. Much of this is not longer useful or relevant. I've
tried
>> to delete these files from my iMac, but I can't.
>> I've tried simply dragging and dropping in the Trash, right-clicking
and
>> sending to trash. Eventually, I figured out that the folders they are
in
>> were locked, and unlocked them. Still can't delete them, even though I
have
>> read/write priviledges. (I have full admin priviledges)
>> I went to the Apple sup****t forums and was advised to use Terminal to
>> delete them via a "sudo rm -rf" command, but this fails too.
>> I'm at a total loss. I've never had so much trouble deleting files,
>> paricularly non-system files, from any computer.
>> Does anyone have any ideas on some way to delete these files?
>
> Excuse the obvious question. Did you try holding the option key while
> choosing the Empty Trash from the file menu?
>
> This allows one to trash items which have even been locked.
Thanks! That did it for one of them. Didn't know about Command empty
trash.
Then I went to the other one, tried the same thing didn't work. Started
looking at the folders and realized there was a folder in a folder in a
folder. I had unlocked the folder it was in before, but not all the
folders in the heirarchy, so I unlocked them all. The Option drag to
Trash didn't work, but the "sudo rm -rf" did! So I now know how to
delete them from either folder. Now I can trim all those files I brought
over from my PC and get rid of the garbage.
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