[P1] files that love the trash

[patrick fisher]

Kim Gammelgård wrote:

> On 19/12/02 18:14, "patrick fisher" <patrick.m.fisher at wamu.net> wrote:
>
> > I had a few files of files that would not delete from the trash. Two of them
> > were
> > locked and the permissions were set to my daughter. As admin, I tried to
> > change the
> > permissions in the getinfo window, but it wouldn't let me and said an 'error
> > one'
> > occurred. I used disk utility to go in and fix the permissions, however that
> > didn't
> > work.
>
> What version of OSX are you using.? I just did the same and had no problems
> changing owner using OSX 10.2.2.
>
> Regarding permission fixing, I would not expect the owner of a personal file
> to be changed, as it was probably not a system file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kim

I have 10.2.2 (10.2.3 as of late last night). The files were pictures that I had
downloaded from my digital camera, I thought, when I was logged in, but they had my
daughter as the user. Fortunately, I have some Unix skills and corrected the problem
with sudo.

P