On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote: > If there are several locked files in the Trash, you can unlock them all > at the same time in Terminal. Follow these steps: > > 1. Open Terminal. > Type: chflags -R nouchg > Note: Type one space (not pictured) after nouchg in the line > above, > so that it ends in "nouchg ". Do not press Return yet. > 2. Double-click the Trash icon in the Dock to reveal the contents of > the Trash. If necessary, arrange the Finder window so that a portion of > the Terminal window is still visible. > 3. Press the Command-A key combination to select all files in the > Trash. > 4. Drag the files from the Trash to the Terminal window. > Note: This automatically enters the pathname for each file. This > eliminates the need to individually empty multiple Trash directories, > particularly when multiple disks or volumes are present. > 5. Press Return. No special text message will be shown indicating > that > the command was successful. > 6. Empty the Trash. There's an easier Unixy way to do this 1) Open Terminal 2) paste this line find ~/.Trash -exec chflags -R nouchg { } \; # which says "Goto ~/.Trash/ and run the command 'chflags -R nouchg' on everything in it 3) then paste this line find ~/.Trash -exec rm -f {} \; # which says "Goto ~/.Trash and delete everything in it TJL