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Use OS 9 to delete huge files that OS X won't delete
Authored by: coolsoldier on Mar 16, '04 09:39:06PM

This has nothing to do with the size of the file, but rather with the fact that it is a log file. Because the system writes to log files almost continuously, they are always in use by the system. OS 9 doesn't use log files, so it can delete them. You can accomplish the same thing in OS X, though, if you move the file and reboot. Then OS X won't find the old log file, so it will create a new one and you can delete the old one.



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