[P1] trashing invisible files

[gwallace]

The invisible files are part of an old backup that I'm trying to trash 
off an external drive.  I suspect they're from the library file for the 
user account that I backed up.  I've trashed other backups with no 
problem, but one particular set of files left a bunch in the trash.  I 
can just pull the folder back out onto the external drive if there's no 
other way to delete them, but I thought there ought to be a way to get 
rid of them.

On Jun 10, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Richard Meyeroff wrote:

> What are invisible files doing in your trash?  if apple has made the 
> files invisible it is so that they are not deleted as they are 
> probably vital for the running of the system.
>
> DO NOT GO THRU YOUR SYSTEM FOLDER AND DELETE OR TRASH INVISIBLE FILES.
>
> This has caused many a crash and the need to reinstall the OS
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Gina Wallace
Topsham, Maine
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