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Authored by: Graham Haultain on Sep 05, '02 07:49:20PM

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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Authored by: Miga on Sep 05, '02 09:26:27PM

It is a so called nice feature. It allows you to retrieve the settings of a deleted user if you want to.

But, as you probably don't want, you can get rid of it in the terminal.

Open the terminal, type sudo -s, then type enter, enter your admin password at the prompt, then type enter, then type rm -rf plus one space and drag and drop the folder from the trash to the terminal, then type enter.

The folder is deleted. Then type exit plus enter to exit from root. Quit terminal.

Use this technique with caution as it works from anywhere but without putting the deleted files in the trash. Hence you cannot recover them.



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Authored by: FrenchByte on Mar 05, '03 09:22:33AM

Worked perfectly for me.
Thanks for the hint



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Don't delete that folder!
Authored by: carsten on Mar 04, '03 11:26:20PM

Note that one should normally not delete the folder "HFS+ Private Data", it contains directory information about multi-linked/hard-linked files (and possibly other directory structures too) in OS X. Even a fresh install of OS X has a few hard-linked files in /bin for example. (I wish Apple would provide at least SOME documentation for such low-level aspects of the system!)

As far as I know this folder is not accessible unless you reboot into OS 9 proper, and even then it's an invisible folder in the top-level of the hard drive.

So as a note of caution to anyone else who may have seen this odd folder name and is considering deleting it... if you are using OS X do not move or delete this folder.



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