Finally got rid of them. Graveyard wouldn't do it, neither would TrashIt! What did the trick was shutting down and starting back up with a shift boot (holding down the shift key while booting up). Whatever cleaning up shift-boot does got rid of these ghost files. Hallelujah!
I think they were really just ghost icons, not even actual files. When I would view the desktop as a directory in list view they didn't show up. They only showed up on the desktop as an icon. May you all have a merry and Mac (and iPhone/iPad)-filled Christmas! Dan > On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > >> I tried using your terminal method to delete these files but it didn't work. >> Here's the strange thing: These two files, which are named "F07B5000" and >> "30526000," do not show up among the Desktop files when I use the "ls -al" >> command. I tried to delete them anyway, using the "sudo rm -rf … " command, >> but they still show up on my Desktop. > > > Get info on the files and look at the full path to them. If it isn't your > desktop directory, go there and try to delete them. If it is your desktop > directory, then you have directory damage and will have to use something like > Disk Warrior to fix it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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