[Ti] Undeleteable folder

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 22:47 -0500 2-4-2003, Gary Keller wrote:
>OS X 10.2
>
>I have a folder that I cannot find any way to delete it. I have 
>tried every trick I can think of but the system still gives the 
>error that the folder cannot be deleted because it is in use. All 
>the files are gone out of it, there is no program running except the 
>system,
>
>What gives? Any thought on what is going on?

Gary - I cannot explain at a root technical detail what is going on, 
but I have from time to time (much less with Jaguar) seen this. 
Either I cannot delete, or I cannot copy, the file/folder (often my 
iDisk is involved), because it is "in use".

I now use Cocktail to delete these kinds of files, if you can get 
them in the Trash.  Under the Cocktail menu "Misc" is a "Force Empty 
Trash" function.  It always seems to do the trick.

I have also found a work-round (at least for the file copying 
problem): enclose the file/folder in a new folder, and everything 
works fine.

An alternative option (someone else already mentioned it) is to 
re-boot in OS9, and delete in that environment (never fails, 
according to my memory).

regards,  Trevor