[G4] [Fwd: Hosed]

[Steve Goldstein]

One thing that might work, if you haven't already munged the system too much:

Locate the object that you need to trash.

Open Terminal

In Terminal, after the prompt, type: su rm <drag the object in here*>

*by dragging the object that you need to trash, you will avoid having to type in the full path name of the object; the system will do it for you--neat trick that I learned from somebody else here a few years ago.

Hit Return, and, enter your administrator's password when asked.

That ought'a do it.  But, if it does not, type: man rm
to get the manual description of the Remove (rm) command.  You may have to add one or two parameters to it to make it work; but I don't think that you will need to do that.

Be very careful using the rm command.  Because once it's gone, it's gone!

--Steve

At 10:01 PM -0500 1/29/06, Norm wrote:
>Used superduper to back up hard drive, made a disk image on the desktop.
>Could not open it so trashed it. Could not empty the trash so tried to
>force empty.