Thanks Dan, you've given all of us a good lesson by your sharing how to solved this problem. Hope you have a Merry Christmas as well.
John On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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