Password Alert! This message may contain a request for your password. NEVER
SEND OR RESPOND TO E-MAIL REQUESTS FOR YOUR PASSWORD. For questions about this
alert, please contact the IT HelpDesk at 405-744-4357 or email
helpd...@okstate.edu.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A couple of things first about terminal since I don't
know how much you are used to using it:
It is very accessible with voiceover but not as good as
it could be so be aware that you may have to use VO-a from time
to time to get a good read of what was printed. Voiceover
doesn't work well with bursty output and will appear to loose
some of what you needed to here. It is not lost, but you will
need to use VO-a to read the scroll-back buffer and then
Command-k to reset it for the next runs.
When you have found the files you want to remove,
individual files can be removed with the rm command as in
rm thisfile.
You can remove a whole directory full of files by using
the -r flag to rm as in rm -r thisdir.
If you goof up and destroy half your system, let's hope
you had good backups because that is the only way to get them
back so be extra careful. There is no undelete function. Once it
is gone, it's gone.
You may find out that you can not delete the files you
are stalking. That is because they install as owned by root. You
can become root on your own system from the terminal by using
the sudo command. What this does is let you become the superuser
while you run this command and then revert back to your
mild-mannered self without the superpowers.
Let's say you find the files and directories you want to
delete but they are owned by root. type something like
sudo rm -r thosefiles
You will probably get a prompt to enter a password and that is
your own login password. This sets a timer for maybe 5 minutes
or so when you can enter other sudo commands without the
password. Each new command starts the timer anew so you only
have to enter your password the first time. four or five minutes
after the last sudo command, the timer times out and you must
enter the password again.
Anyway, that is how you remove files and directories in
terminal.
Good luck and go slowly and methodically. It is not
difficult but it is easy to delete more than you want and as I
said, there is no undelete function, only recovery from backups.
Martin
michael weaver writes:
> how do you remove files and directories in the terminal on the mac? i am
> going to see if i can remove the musicmanager preference file using the
> terminal as no other way i have found that will remove the thing from the
> system preferences and the apps i have found you have to purchase which
> may
> not be worth it for just trying to get rid of one app that is being
> stubbon
> to remove and keeps starting up on login and musicmanager is not
> accessible
> with voiceover.
>
> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --->
>
> To reply to this post, please address your message to
> mac-access@mac-access.net
>
> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum
> at either the list's own dedicated web archive:
> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html>
> or at the public Mail Archive:
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>.
> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from:
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml>
>
> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus
> and worm-free!
>
> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by
> visiting the list website at:
> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
>
>
<--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --->
To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net
You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at
either the list's own dedicated web archive:
<http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html>
or at the public Mail Archive:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>.
Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml>
The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and
worm-free!
Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the
list website at:
<http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
