G'day Kevin, What are the permissions of these files/folders? Have you set up a root password? If so log in as root and try deleting them. Coj Kevin.Hahn at colorado.edu Sent by: x4u-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 01/04/05 10:10 AM Please respond to "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user." To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com cc: (bcc: Brett Conlon) Subject: Re: Re: [X4U] Deleting pesky files I can't move or delete the files, it won't let me do anything with them but let them sit on the desktop in various different locations on the desktop, no folders on the desktop, no moving them to a shared folder, no doing anything with them but looking at them and wanting them to go away. Kevin