> Thanks for your reply, but itss not a matter of > emptying the Trash. What's happening is that I can't > get the Trash can to accept the to-be-deleted file. > With Finder weirding out and such, I'd consider two things. One, check the filesystem with Norton Disk Doctor/Disk Commander/Disk First Aid, and two, open one of the offending files (or look at the folder) in Resedit and check to see if it's locked, hidden, undeletable, etc. FileTyper )http://dazuma.freeshell.org/filetyper( does a good job too. This is very strange, indeed. -t