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Cannot delete file in OS X
I have a file in trash, and I cannot delete it. Before you ask me to STFW, no, the file is not locked :-/
The file is a symbolic link to nothing (target is deleted). Here is the output of ls -lO on ...
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What is the difference between moving a file to Trash and using Terminal to rm it?
What is the difference between moving a file to Trash and using the Terminal to rm it?
What is the idea behind the scenes?
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Two commands to move files to trash. What's the difference?
trash-cli provide a trash command, and gvfs-bin provides a gvfs-trash command that move files / directories to the trash can.
Is there an important difference between these two commands?
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Mac always warns “You can't undo this action” and skips the Trash when deleting a file
I repaired the permissions on my iMac and am now getting this dialog box whenever I delete something. I checked Finder > Preferences and "Empty Trash Securely" and "Show Warning" are both unchecked. ...
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Can't delete files in trash because they don't exist on OS X 10.6?
Something funky happened on one of my external drives and now whenever I plug it in 2 files show up in my Trash. If I empty the Trash via Finder, nothing happens. Ditto for the Option+Empty Trash ...
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Put files deleted over the network into a Windows trash can?
From a Windows workstation when I delete files over the network (e.g. a file share, server disk, etc) those files are never put into a trash can, either on my Windows workstation or on the server - ...
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Can items deleted from “Trash” be recovered?
On a Mac we have option to delete items securely from trash, while deleting it warns that: "once deleted items will not be recovered".
I want to know that is there any way by which items deleted ...
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Deleting a single file from the trash in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
In earlier versions of Mac OS X 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.
Unlike earlier versions in ...
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How can I speed up the deleting of very large directories on XP?
I regularly check out incredibly huge directories onto my XP machine. When it comes down to deleting and finally trashing them, it takes forever. Is there any way to speed this process up?
