Need help erasing trash
Hi
I have a weird issue here, i can't erase trash.
I only have one folder containing one item in my trash:
(~/.Trash/ERASE/Ti?ng Viê?t.html)
For the life of me i can't get rid of this %$#@#@@@
doing : ls ~/.Trash/ERASE/, shows Tie????ng Vie????t.html
Now. i thought i just sudo -rm -r this bastard, but when autocopmpleting pathname (tab) it changes to:
sudo rm -r ~/.Trash/ERASE/Tie\\314\\202\\314\\201ng Vie\\314\\202\\314\\243t.html
then ends up telling me:
rm: Viê?t.html: No such file or directory
Some sort of character encoding issue?
Any ideas?
(sorry for chaotic post)
I have a weird issue here, i can't erase trash.
I only have one folder containing one item in my trash:
(~/.Trash/ERASE/Ti?ng Viê?t.html)
For the life of me i can't get rid of this %$#@#@@@
doing : ls ~/.Trash/ERASE/, shows Tie????ng Vie????t.html
Now. i thought i just sudo -rm -r this bastard, but when autocopmpleting pathname (tab) it changes to:
sudo rm -r ~/.Trash/ERASE/Tie\\314\\202\\314\\201ng Vie\\314\\202\\314\\243t.html
then ends up telling me:
rm: Viê?t.html: No such file or directory
Some sort of character encoding issue?
Any ideas?
(sorry for chaotic post)
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If that does not help, navigate to the trash folder in Terminal and use the " rm -rf * " command in there - but only in there!!! That should erase everything in the trash folder.
Hi
I have a weird issue here, i can't erase trash.
I only have one folder containing one item in my trash:
(~/.Trash/ERASE/Ti?ng Viê?t.html)
For the life of me i can't get rid of this %$#@#@@@
doing : ls ~/.Trash/ERASE/, shows Tie????ng Vie????t.html
Now. i thought i just sudo -rm -r this bastard, but when autocopmpleting pathname (tab) it changes to:
sudo rm -r ~/.Trash/ERASE/Tie\\314\\202\\314\\201ng Vie\\314\\202\\314\\243t.html
then ends up telling me:
rm: Viê?t.html: No such file or directory
Some sort of character encoding issue?
Any ideas?
(sorry for chaotic post)
You have an unescaped space in there just before the 'Vie'. Put a backslash just before it like so...
...\\201ng\\ Vie\\314...
Why would it "autocomplete" it wrong?
Hmm. Try entering into the ERASE directory, and 'rm -f *.html'. Any better?
If you can't get anything to work, that probably means the disk formatting is screwed. Have you checked it with Disk Utility?
Still no go though.
Mr H, i've tried that before i posted, nope it won't let me.
Anyways, for those of you with Adobe CS2 installed.. this file is located in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS2/Legal
I was trying to use ASR to clone my HD, and it would always fail on this specific file, and since i don't really need all that EULAs i thought it was a good idea to get rid of it.
It's not the end of the world, but it just bugs me
I can't rename it, i can move it though, i can't open it (using either safari or textwrangler)
Finder says it's 112KB. I can do pico ~/.Trash/ERASE/Tie\\314\\202\\314\\201ng\\ Vie\\314\\202\\314\\243t.html
it shows as empty though....
can't rename it, can't copy it
Anyways, for those of you with Adobe CS2 installed.. this file is located in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS2/Legal
"Mac OS X causes illegal file names to be reported when it reads some of the font data used in the Vietnamese End User License Agreements, which are installed in the Legal or Legal.localized folders. This problem causes severe file system and hard disk corruption if the files are not deleted or if the file system is not repaired.
Apple fixed this problem in Mac OS X 10.4.7."
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332657.html
As soon as I install CS2 on anyone's machine, I run Disk Utility and find the name error. I then repair the drive by booting and holding command-s for single user mode and running fsck -f. Then there should be no problems cloning. I have cloned a system with CS2 installed after doing this repair.
"Mac OS X causes illegal file names to be reported when it reads some of the font data used in the Vietnamese End User License Agreements, which are installed in the Legal or Legal.localized folders. This problem causes severe file system and hard disk corruption if the files are not deleted or if the file system is not repaired.
Apple fixed this problem in Mac OS X 10.4.7."
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332657.html
As soon as I install CS2 on anyone's machine, I run Disk Utility and find the name error. I then repair the drive by booting and holding command-s for single user mode and running fsck -f. Then there should be no problems cloning. I have cloned a system with CS2 installed after doing this repair.
fsck did the trick
i got another weird msg after fsck, launchd bug: something something.... which may explain why my computer takes looong time to boot.
But at least i got rid of these EULAs, thanks!
That was interesting i have to say ...