JayBee
02-05-2002, 05:55 PM
Oh yes, it's that old chestnut, but with a new twist:
Try to empty Trash, get told I don't have enough privileges... yeesh.
Fire up the terminal, check in .Trash... and all the files are in my name. rm -r * them, and my trash can icon still looks full.
"Must have not updated the icon" I mutter at the screen, and open up trash as if to say "See? nothing there!"
But there's a folder called "Temporary Items" in there. Which is empty.
Hmm. Terminal back to .Trash, ls -al... and nothing's there.
Log out, log in as another user, and there's nothing in the trash. Check the root home directory in the terminal, no .Trash folder... LOG IN as root, nothing in that trash can.
Help? The real bummer is that now the undeletable file (a file Finder insists is called "0" in the Temp. Items folder) is the oldest thing in there, so Finder tries to vape it first, fails, and doesn't delete anything else... my Trash is filling up alarmingly as I can't clear it.
If this is an old one, sorry, but I haven't seen anything like this so far.
Try to empty Trash, get told I don't have enough privileges... yeesh.
Fire up the terminal, check in .Trash... and all the files are in my name. rm -r * them, and my trash can icon still looks full.
"Must have not updated the icon" I mutter at the screen, and open up trash as if to say "See? nothing there!"
But there's a folder called "Temporary Items" in there. Which is empty.
Hmm. Terminal back to .Trash, ls -al... and nothing's there.
Log out, log in as another user, and there's nothing in the trash. Check the root home directory in the terminal, no .Trash folder... LOG IN as root, nothing in that trash can.
Help? The real bummer is that now the undeletable file (a file Finder insists is called "0" in the Temp. Items folder) is the oldest thing in there, so Finder tries to vape it first, fails, and doesn't delete anything else... my Trash is filling up alarmingly as I can't clear it.
If this is an old one, sorry, but I haven't seen anything like this so far.