I have just moved on to a new MacBook Pro(15 inch, 2017), and I am trying to delete a very peculiar file:
/Users/tommy/Desktop/com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview/SafariFamily
rm
doesn't work:
tommy@MACBP-5 Desktop % sudo rm -r -f -v "com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview/SafariFamily"
Password:
rm: com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview/SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
and I can't see the permissions of the file:
tommy@MACBP-5 com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview % sudo ls -a -l
Password:
ls: SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 tommy staff 96 Feb 2 09:00 .
drwx------@ 63 tommy staff 2016 Feb 2 09:00 ..
chmod
is also not permitted.
Please help me to delete this file.
EDIT1: OK, Here you go, Spiff.
tommy@MACBP-5 com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview % ls -ldeO@ SafariFamily
ls: SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
EDIT2: That didn't work either, Spiff.
tommy@MACBP-5 com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview % sudo ls -ldeO@ SafariFamily
Password:
ls: SafariFamily: Operation not permitted
EDIT3: ANSWER FOUND!
I have tried the methods from macOS Catalina cannot remove file from trash, involving disabling SIP in Recovery Mode via the command csrutil disable
, which worked.
tommy@MACBP-5 com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview % csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.
tommy@MACBP-5 com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview % rm -frv SafariFamily
SafariFamily/SafariTechnologyPreview/Preferences.plist
SafariFamily/SafariTechnologyPreview
SafariFamily
ls -ldeO@ SafariFamily
?sudo ls -ldeO@ SafariFamily