Thanks! I was able to delete the files and regain the space. rick
On May 3, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Bryan Forrest wrote: > Gonna have to go through terminal on this one... > > Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type: > > cd /Volumes/(name of your storage drive) > > cd Users > > sudo rm -rF (user folder you wish to delete) [You'll have to enter > your password after this] > > and that should do if I recall correctly. > > Bryan > > On May 3, 2006, at 10:12 AM, b3 wrote: > >> now that finals are over, i'm finally sending in the powerbook for >> repair, but i've made one small mistake. >> >> I have an external firewire drive that i have in two partitions, >> storage and backup. >> I use SuperDuper! to make scheduled nightly bootable backups, just >> in case. >> last night I forgot to plug in the drive so i had to do a manual >> backup today. >> >> except, I accidently started the backup to the storage drive. I >> caught it after 11 gigs had been copied, and then started the >> regular backup where it should be. >> >> But now, I have 11 gigs of info in a 'Users' folder on my storage >> drive that I can't delete because it says that I don't have >> sufficient privileges for the user. >> any idea how to reclaim the space without wiping the whole partition? >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 23 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
