[X Newbies] File from Hell -Help!

[Scott]

On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 11:23 AM, David Whelpley wrote:

> My G4  (10.2.3) locked up last night while I was downloading RealOne 
> player and trying to open a shareware game. My machine totally locked 
> and I couldn't use the mouse or a keyboard command to make a forced 
> quit. I finally held down the power button to turn it off. It 
> restarted just fine.
>
> Now I have a problem the partially downloaded  RealOne player(sit.) on 
> my desktop cannot be trashed!  It tells me my file is being used by 
> another task right now when I try to trash it.
>
> I have tried the following:
> Looked for it in I.E.'s download manager-It's not there
> Unlocked file under ownwership and permissions-Unlocks just fine but 
> won't trash
> Changed ownership to administrator and unlocked-Unlocks just fine but 
> won't trash
> I have run Disk Utility from Apple-No help
>
> Can anyone else think of something to try? Any thoughts would be 
> appreciated!
>
> Dave Whelpley


Dave:
Open Terminal (it's in Applications).
Type rm followed by a space.
drag the file into the terminal window.
hit the return key.

-- 
Scott