icon itself. When you choose Empty Trash from the pop-up menu, Mac OSX empites the Trash without complaint..."
That works sometimes! Tuesday, August 22, 20068:01 PMProfileprofile at aye.net >I need help trying to empty the trash. In making a copy of some >files I found that I couldn't copy them to the firewire drive, saying >that "code3dig" was busy. I had no idea what that was, so to find >out I made a copy of the entire folder, then put the original in the >trash and emptied. Ahhhh, I couldn't empty several of the files, >"code3dig" was busy. > >It seems that an old forms design program "Informed" (That I have not >used in years) has a font by the name of code3Dig that is in the >Sample Bar Code Fonts. Now this has never appeared before, I have >made copies of that folder forever but now somehow this bar code font >is active. > >I have tried everything I can think of to empty the trash. I have >completely gotten rid of all the Informed folders, backup folders, >etc. and according to Spotlight the only "Informed" items on the >machine are in the trash, but I can't empty. Years ago you could >hold down on a key combination and start with just the bare >extensions, and often this would allow you to do what was needed, but >I don't know how to either "quit" the font, or override the stopping >of the emptying. > >Any help on how to do this would sure be appreciated, many thanks. > >John R. > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be August 22 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 August 22 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>