My trash currently has a file I can't get rid of. It is in the Trash of an external Firewire drive. It's actually a Folder, not a file.
Upon requesting a Trash emptying, it says that the file is "in use". The Folder is not in use, I have rebooted, etc.
This "stuck" file was the result of a wicked and very scary event in which a whole bunch of files on the external FW drive suddenly decided to start disppearing. Literally, right in front of my eyes I could watch them deleting themselves one by one. In the end I lost about fifteen files (all backed up, so no big deal). I also ended up with two files that were identical, yet in the same directory, which is not allowed of course. The file names were the same, creation/mod dates the same, everything. Very weird.
So I decided to delete the whole directory just to "clean" out whatever weird thing/corruption may have happened. And now I'm stuck with a folder that won't trash.
I'm not savvy with the terminal, but any suggestions there I'll try I guess.
Upon requesting a Trash emptying, it says that the file is "in use". The Folder is not in use, I have rebooted, etc.
This "stuck" file was the result of a wicked and very scary event in which a whole bunch of files on the external FW drive suddenly decided to start disppearing. Literally, right in front of my eyes I could watch them deleting themselves one by one. In the end I lost about fifteen files (all backed up, so no big deal). I also ended up with two files that were identical, yet in the same directory, which is not allowed of course. The file names were the same, creation/mod dates the same, everything. Very weird.
So I decided to delete the whole directory just to "clean" out whatever weird thing/corruption may have happened. And now I'm stuck with a folder that won't trash.
I'm not savvy with the terminal, but any suggestions there I'll try I guess.