[G4] unable to trash documents

[iwanabee]

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On Sunday, Dec 28, 2003, at 05:51 US/Pacific, Joseph B. Gurman wrote:

>     CJ Scaminaci wrote:
>
>>> I was wondering if anyone could help me. Running Jaguar, I can't 
>>> trash
>>> 3  documents on my desktop, it said that it cannot trash the 
>>> documents
>>> because it is not finished with a task it was performing? Held down 
>>> the
>>> option key and also restarted the computer and it still gives me that
>>> message.
>>
>> If you can use terminal, do this.
>>
>> Launch Terminal
>> Type "cd desktop"
>> Press Enter
>> Type "rm -rf FILE NAME"
>> Press Enter
>>
>> Type the last command for each file. That should do the trick.
>
>     A few comments:
>
> 1. The unix syntax allows: rm -rf <filename1> <filename2> <filename3>
>
> 2. All the "f" switch on the rm instruction does is attempt to 
> override permissions on the file without asking you for confirmation; 
> if you don't have sufficient privilege to do so, it still won't work. 
> If it doesn't work, try: "sudo rm -rf <filename1> <filename2> 
> <filename3>" instead, and be prepared to enter an administator 
> password (presumably yours, if you're the only user on the machine).
>
> 3. If the OS thinks it's using the docs, not even rm -rf will delete 
> them. Do you know what process is using the docs?
>
>     HTH,
>
> 						Joe Gurman
>