Re: moving files to trash

[Chris Burton]

Hey Ronni

Thankyou very much. I had completely overlooked Disk Utility. It worked a treat.

Before using diskutility, I delved deeper into the many files and some showed 
they were locked in Get Info and I imagine they might have been part of the 
problem!?

Kind regards and many thanks for your help.

Chris


Christopher L.K. Burton
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Western Whale Research
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Dunsborough WA 6281
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Email: c...@it.net.au 

On 26/06/2012, at 1:42 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Are you only deleting some files on the thumb drive or all the files?
> If deleting all the files use Dick Utility to erase the thumb drive.
> 
> If only trying to delete some files on the thumb drive and they are not 
> password protected.
> 
> Have you tried Relaunching Finder?
> Option click & hold on Finder icon in the dock > Relaunch
> Try to delete the files again.
> 
> Or restart your Mac, then try again.
> 
> Remember you have to empty the trash on the Mac before you eject the thumb 
> drive.
> Otherwise every time you connect the thumb drive to a computer the files will 
> show in the trash.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> On 26/06/2012, at 1:17 PM, Chris Burton wrote:
> 
>> Hi Muggers
>> 
>> I am doing some winter cleaning, going through a number of USB thumb drives, 
>> copying files to the HD then deleting them from the USB to free them up for 
>> work.
>> 
>> However I have one that refuses to have its files moved to the Trash, and 
>> shows an error message: 
>> 
>> "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred 
>> (error code -1407)."
>> 
>> I have spent quite a bit of time on google but cant seem to find anything on 
>> this one.
>> 
>> Can someone please help with some advice on what I need to do?
>> 
>> Many thanks
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> MBPro i7 OS10.6.8
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Re: moving files to trash

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Chris,

Are you only deleting some files on the thumb drive or all the files?
If deleting all the files use Dick Utility to erase the thumb drive.

If only trying to delete some files on the thumb drive and they are not 
password protected.

Have you tried Relaunching Finder?
Option click & hold on Finder icon in the dock > Relaunch
Try to delete the files again.

Or restart your Mac, then try again.

Remember you have to empty the trash on the Mac before you eject the thumb 
drive.
Otherwise every time you connect the thumb drive to a computer the files will 
show in the trash.

Cheers,
Ronni

On 26/06/2012, at 1:17 PM, Chris Burton wrote:

> Hi Muggers
> 
> I am doing some winter cleaning, going through a number of USB thumb drives, 
> copying files to the HD then deleting them from the USB to free them up for 
> work.
> 
> However I have one that refuses to have its files moved to the Trash, and 
> shows an error message: 
> 
> "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error 
> code -1407)."
> 
> I have spent quite a bit of time on google but cant seem to find anything on 
> this one.
> 
> Can someone please help with some advice on what I need to do?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> MBPro i7 OS10.6.8

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moving files to trash

[Chris Burton]

Hi Muggers

I am doing some winter cleaning, going through a number of USB thumb drives, 
copying files to the HD then deleting them from the USB to free them up for 
work.

However I have one that refuses to have its files moved to the Trash, and shows 
an error message: 

"The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error 
code -1407)."

I have spent quite a bit of time on google but cant seem to find anything on 
this one.

Can someone please help with some advice on what I need to do?

Many thanks

Chris


MBPro i7 OS10.6.8
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