[MacDV] Can't Erase File - Help

[Jeff Fay]

have you rebuilt your desktop?

animal wrote:

> Via a newly purchased formatted hard drive, a pesky file called econ 
> technologies has now ended up in my G4 400 (system 9.04). This G4 has 
> and will never be on the internet. I think econ's an http reference 
> file (www.econtechnologies.com/.#1EAE) to a site which is no longer in 
> business. Attempts to erase it by moving it into new folders (even 
> while holding down the option key) have cloned it to about 8 copies in 
> the trash bin. I tried to get info on the file only to get
> "The info window cannot be opened as it cannot be found."
>
> Now everytime I empty the trash I get 8 reminder windows that the
>
> The item
> "www.econtechnologies.com/.#1EAE" could
> not be deleted, because it cannot be found.
> Do you want to continue?
>
> This isn't affecting my system, but is there anyway to get rid of it?
>
> Thanks
> Lynn
>
>
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THE STONE AGE did not end because people ran out of stone. The Petroleum Age will not end because we run out of petroleum, but because we develop superior technologies.


Fritjof Capra, physicist and philosopher, speaking at the Bioneers conference, October 2002