[X Newbies] File from Hell -Help!

John Aquilina john.aquilina at showads.com.au
Mon Feb 17 14:19:55 PST 2003


David,
You can try this Utility, (see URL below) which forces Stubborn Trash 
Contents.
I've had a similar problem, and this utility fixed it up.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17841

Cheers,


Message-Id: <a05200f00ba74409cf97e@[63.186.137.92]>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:23:42 -0500
From: David Whelpley <whelp at earthlink.net>
Subject: [X Newbies] File from Hell -Help!

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



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