Mar 16, '04 10:29:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
It seemed I could not get rid of the file, until a helpful hint from a guru at the Apple Store's Genius Bar came to the rescue. He said that often when files can not be deleted in OS X, they CAN be deleted in OS 9. I simply rebooted under OS 9, and sure enough, the file deleted without a hitch. Hopefully, this simple tip can help others regain some hard drive space, or sanity, when OS X won't fulfill its deleting obligations!
[robg adds: I'm not sure what the answer is if you get into this situation with a new machine that won't boot into OS 9. Although I have such a machine, I'm not really interested in trying to create an 8gb+ file with which to test this hint -- so if anyone has any advice/experience, please share it...]
