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Authored by: Graham Haultain on Sep 05, '02 07:49:00PM

I have the folder from hell residing in my (ALPHA X HDD) Trash can. It is called "Alpha deleted" ( and it seems to lie on the desktop on my second partition on another HDD) and contains (4 spaces) HFS + Private Data). I am told I have not got sufficient privileges to get rid of it, and it is locked so it is a root file (System and Wheel). It will be there for ever as a recent re-install did not remove this link. Drat!



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Re:NOT QUITE............
Authored by: robarmo on Sep 05, '02 09:23:05PM

Whenever I`ve had problems of this nature, I simply boot into OS 9 proper,
and rename. move, or delete the stubborn file(s) as required. Then reboot to OS X.
Its worked everytime.



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NOT QUITE............
Authored by: Thomas Thaler on Mar 04, '03 02:07:59PM
Dear Graham,

I hade the same problem just a few days ago and if you still stuck with it then I have a sollution that solved the problem for my. Start the terminal and login as admin, if you aren't it allready. From within the terminal do the following steps.
[localhost:/] admin%  sudo shutdown now
--> Quit Aqua and go in the underground
%  su
%  cd /Volumes/your drive/your folder/
--> Change directory to the folder where your undeletable file/folder is nested in.
%  chflags nouchg,noschg Your_undeletabel_file/folder
%  rm -r Your_undeletabel_file/folder
--> Because your file/folder contains special characters at the beginning of the file/folder name, just hit TAB once to let the system choose the mestyrious object.
(This works only if there are NO other files/folders next to Your_undeletabel_file/folder.)
%  exit
%  reboot
The above procedure can alos be done if you boot into sinlge user mode after you did a fsck -y Hope that helps you and anyone else and sorry for my bad english.

Greetings from Switzerland
Thomas Thaler

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