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 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
