[G4] Re: Norton is History! (Including the invisible files)

[Richard M. Kriss]

Sorry about the typo in the first sentence.  I should have typed "now"
rather than "not."  Anyway Norton and all the associated files are history.
Per an after the fact note from John I probably could have used the rm
command from the terminal if I had used the backup drive in the filename.  I
wrongfully assumed the Trash belonged to the boot drive. The remaining
invisible file was owned by my backup drive.

Dick


On 4/21/05 4:37 AM, "g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com"
<g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:30:24 -0500
> From: "Richard M. Kriss" <rmkriss at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [G4] Norton is History!  (Including the invisible files)
> 
> Thanks to tips from John Baltutis and Harold-P Norton is not history and no
> more nag notes. It was time consuming but easy to get rig of most of the
> Norton junk.  The hard part was getting rid of the invisible file in the
> Trash called Norton FS Index.  Since it was invisible. the Finder did not
> think there was anything in the Trash and the Finder's Empty Trash button
> was dimmed. It could not be found in the terminal so the rm command would
> not work.
> 
> I got lucky by messing around in the Finder's Find results by
> double-clicking on the "Norton FS Index" invisible file shown to be in the
> Trash.  The Finder came back with a dialog box saying the host application
> could not be found (already trashed) and ask me if I wanted to try something
> else.  I selected BBEdit and it opened the file.  I then used the BBEdit
> Save As command and let it replace the old Norton file.  The Finder then
> recognized Norton FS Index as a file and it could be trashed.
> 
> 
> Dick