[P1] trashing invisible files

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2004-06-10 18:41, gwallace wrote:

> 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
>
> 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.

sudo rm -R ~/.Trash

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