I have a cron job calling a bash script which runs fine, except for one line inside it that is suppose to remove all fines in a directory. The result of this line is always 'no such file or directory' …

I have a couple of files that I want to delete. So I select them and then do Move to Trash. However, when I do so I get this message: Some of the items you are moving are in use by another …

I'm just thinking about this, is there an application that can fake permanent delete of a file. For example, you press shift+del on the keyboard. And the file is permanently deleted. Is there an …

Time Machine is nice because it Just Works and it does its magic in the background. But left to itself, it can really swell up due to either large files that you don't really need backed up slipping …

Possible Duplicate: Deleting files in Windows XP extremely slow Why does deleting files (and at the same time, emptying the recycle bin) takes so long on Windows where it would be near …

Hello, When I go to delete files in XP, it's deleting them directly. I had my machine recently reimaged, and this feature changed (no longer says are you sure you want to do this). Where does the …

I use the methods here to trim files from my backup and exclude them from future backups. I have ~/.dropbox excluded, but I don't know how to delete all current backups because it's invisible (and …

One of the guys I'm in charge of hasn't been pulling his weight. His productivity and quality of workmanship are way down and his computer's been getting malware infections lately. You can see where …

Hi, I want a software, similar to Unlocker or something in which we can delete files that are used by another process, for*Windows 2008 R2*.

I have the following setup: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600), 4G of Memory, LOTS of free space NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT [Display adapter] Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (23.1"vis, s/n …

In earlier versions of OSX one could delete a file from the trash by opening a terminal window and typing rm ~/.Trash/file_i_want_to_delete. See this previous post 1 Unlike earlier versions in Mac …

On Mac OS X, what is a good way of preventing accidental removal of certain files and folders? I still need to be able to read those files and folders and to add new files to those folders, but I want …

My flex builder somehow decided to create infinite folders within folders and crashed itself. Now windows cannot delete the folder, saying the file name is too long. Even Unlocker can't delete it. …

There's got to be a better way. I'm using Windows 7, but advice that spans other Windows editions would be more beneficial to the masses.

Windows 7 Disk Management shows the following under Disk 0: 157MB Healthy (OEM Partition) Recovery (F:) 15.00 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition) OS (D:) 100.00 GB NTFS Healthy (System, Active, …