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Yikes!
Authored by: mcramer on May 10, '02 02:05:26PM

As a long time Unix guy, I have to say, seeing "sudo", "rm", and "*" on the same line makes my blood run cold. Add "-f" and it's too much. If done right, yes, it would do what you expect...but "f" and "r" are right next to each other on my keyboard. And what if you mis-typed that "cd"? This is like playing with guns.

Anyway...just to keep me sane, would you mind changing the suggestion to something cleaner, like:

sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.FCacheSystemDomain

That seems to be the file you *want* to delete. Remember. OSX is *Unix* and should be treated with the appropriate care and respect.



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Yikes indeed...
Authored by: philby on May 10, '02 03:58:52PM

Thanks for pointing this out, mcramer.

I'm the one guilty (I submitted the original hint), and even though I've been working with SGI boxes a few years back, I still get that strange fearful feeling when I see any "rm".

I read about this hint in the german Macworld, and they said it came from a tech supporter at Apple, so that's why I thought this should work the way it was written (did for me!).

I'm sure your way of doing it is safer, and would recommend anyone to at least try this first.



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