Gregory Weston 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?
>
> On the off chance that by "copied" you mean you've brought that folder
> to your Mac on a FAT-formatted device and are now trying to delete the
> folder from *that* device (rather than, say, having copied it to the
> internal drive in your machine and now wanting to delete that copy)
> you've run into a bug in Apple's handling of directories on FAT volumes.
> There's no realistic workaround at this time. The best solution is to
> bring the device back to a Windows machine and delete it from there.
>
To all who offered your suggestions:
Thanks! Got it figured out with your help. See my reply to Thomas for
details on how it worked.
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