Deleting the "Previous System" folder¿?¿?

[Urbansory]

I tried to delete the folder manually by dragging to the trash, no go.
Tried the Terminal with "rm", root access needed, permission denied.
I tried "sudo rm" and got permission denied.

So how do i get rid of this? I guess if i had Disk Warrior i would have been able to fix the "keys" problem, but since i didn't... I had to archive and install. i plan to order a copy this week.

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Would love to know this too

 

[bobw]

Open the terminal and type:

cd ~/.Trash
<hit return>

sudo rm -rf

put a space after the f and drag the item you want deleted to the terminal so that its path is automatically entered, then press return

give it your admin password and hit return

 

[Sogni]

Chown the directory to you:

sudo chown -R youraccount thedirectory
(forget where the R goes exactly [not on my mac or unix box atm] so try it at the end if that doesnt work).

then try removing it:
rm -Rf directory

HTH.

 

[Urbansory]

I got an operation not permitted.

 

[sailgreg]

Login as root and trash it, or in panther press Authenticate

 

[Urbansory]

how do i log in as root? And how do i log out?

 

[Sogni]

try chown (see above) without sudo...
still not on my mac

 

[Urbansory]

I did something wrong the last time, this time i got: Directory not empty.

2nd way without sudo I get:The same

 

[Urbansory]

Damn, it hit me, let me try and trash it after all that, and that worked, one question, Why?