Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-12 Thread Reg Whitely
"Aha, not the old port forwarding trick 22, 99!" "Now you're talking, Cloe!" ;-) Reg On 12/03/2009, at 5:27 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: To do what you are suggesting I would need to get him to Enable Remote Login in System Preferences (that's no problem for him) & require him to enable port f

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Reg, I have Apple Remote Desktop v3.2.2 (Unlimited Managed Systems License) on my MacBook Pro and I have setup all my Family, Friends and a few "Clients" so I can Take Control of their computers and do Troubleshooting, Installs etc. Once its setup on their Macs and Ports are opened on th

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-12 Thread Reg Whitely
Hi Ronni I don't know about this but could he set the Mac to remote log-in in File sharing and you do the brain surgery from home? Reg On 12/03/2009, at 2:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Thanks Darrel for your offer, But I'll sort him out eventually. If my last email to him with more instruct

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Thanks Darrel for your offer, But I'll sort him out eventually. If my last email to him with more instructions doesn't do the trick, I'll get him to do Peter's suggestion of using Terminal. I'm really trying not to let him near Terminal, but might have to ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2009,

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-11 Thread Darrel McGuiness
Hi Ronni, How far down South? We are just south of Yallingup and could be of MODERATE help ( I thought you may be talking about me until mentioning the mere male only had One computer, we have TWO) Regards Darrel On 12/03/2009, at 10:09 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Thanks Peter, Adrian, Bob & Ro

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Thanks Peter, Adrian, Bob & Roger, A good idea Adrian ... but, the guy is way down south in the country with only ONE computer and no way of borrowing another ;-) I'm not going down with my MacBook Pro just to delete this uncompleted & corrupted file. I've sent him an email with these sugge

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-11 Thread Robert Howells
On 12/03/2009, at 8:47 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: At great risk of showing my ignorance No such thing here--in a case like this, if you start the offending computer in target mode could the offending file be trashed on the second computer? Brilliant idea that quite probably will work . I

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-11 Thread Adrian Skehan
At great risk of showing my ignorance here--in a case like this, if you start the offending computer in target mode could the offending file be trashed on the second computer? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 12/03/2009, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I know there are Terminal commands that could be typed to trash this file but. There is absolutely NO WAY I want this guy going anywhere near Terminal ... Heaven Forbid! He is a very basic Mac user, doesn't follow instructions well (even

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-10 Thread Ronda Brown
Thanks Roger, I'm sure I asked him to Repair Permissions, but that doesn't mean he did "Repair Permissions". I'll email him to make sure he has ... but when he checks his email is anyone's guess ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 11/03/2009, at 2:01 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Ronda I had that happen

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-10 Thread Ronda Brown
On 11/03/2009, at 2:00 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello WAMUGer's, I gave a person permission to download a 373.4 MB disk image (.dmg) from my iDisk Public Folder. As he started the download he saw it was going to take over two hours, so he t

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-10 Thread Roger Kortas
Hi Ronda I had that happen to a file last week and its seems the file had got corrupted and the only way I could delete it was by restarting the Mac and running repair permissions!! roger On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello WAMUGer's, I gave a person permission to downl

Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-10 Thread Robert Howells
On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello WAMUGer's, I gave a person permission to download a 373.4 MB disk image (.dmg) from my iDisk Public Folder. As he started the download he saw it was going to take over two hours, so he tried to stop the download, (how I have no idea). Ev

Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download

2009-03-10 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello WAMUGer's, I gave a person permission to download a 373.4 MB disk image (.dmg) from my iDisk Public Folder. As he started the download he saw it was going to take over two hours, so he tried to stop the download, (how I have no idea). Eventually he ended up with a 15MB size file on his