... . He really misses watching his RM collection which I dare not ...

Has he updated his drivers? If so, can he roll them back? what is his OS version and RM player version? Does he have any other problems playing any other media files?

... people that has used "sudo rm" ? If so, that is likely ...

[quote]Originally posted by MrBillData: Are you one of those people that has used "sudo rm" ? If so, that is likely the reason. :confused: rm is a standard unix deleting command, sudo just gives you root powers, how does this make a difference?

... ]Originally posted by chych: :confused: rm is a standard unix deleting ...

... * running as root, or using 'rm' as sudo. Sorry. The two ...

... * running as root, or using 'rm' as sudo. Sorry. The two ...

... people that has used "sudo rm" ? If so, that is likely ...

... the problem, you could just rm the file -- no need to ...

... the problem, you could just rm the file -- no need to ...

its my machine. SUing to root and typing rm -rf * in the dir tells me that i (root) do not have permission to do that. does anyone know what these files are in the first place tho?

try this, type 'rm ' into terminal [don't hit enter]. then go into the finder, and navigate to the files. then drag one of the naughty files onto the terminal window. it should expand the full path of the file name. now try enter.

ah, this one is a classical from Unix. you have to use quotes " on files with a space in it. like this: [code] rm -R /volumes/seppak/pictures/"Photo Album Pictures"/delete

... .- TurboPrefs.prefPane). [quote][code] sudo rm /System/Library/PreferencePanes/FileName.prefPane ...

there is a easier way to do this what you did, jack. just type [quote] sudo rm into the terminal and drag & drop the file into the terminal window. voilÃ* !

... delete something via the terminal? rm filename rm -rf dirname if you ... root do it: sudo rm filename sudo rm -r dirname (you have ...

123 kinda covered it above but i *wouldn't* try this for fun: sudo rm -rf / (should get rid of the file though )

... . Open Terminal, and type sudo rm -r and then hit space ...

This is really scarry. This is like Harry Potter/Star Wars/ LOTR hype which lives up to it. There is only on thing that can be so big......Redemption give it out for the holme boyes :cool:

... you enter typos!)[code]sudo rm -Rf ~/.TrashAt the password prompt ...

... are stupid and want to rm -xx " (moron warning: the real ...

... locked. So I just (carefully) rm -rf'd it all. And ...

try deleting the invisible .ds_store file in the Desktop folder. sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I think you can try do it through Terminal. RM is remove

... it does: you play the .rm file in RealMedia player, or ...

... then followed the instruction to rm the offending icon/file. Excellent ...

there is a terminal way of deleting files that won't stop being in use....I believe it is psuedo rm "file name" or path to file. Somebody help Matsu out! I know I am close, but I can't remember the exact command.

don't psuedo rm the kernal haha i tested on a PC i installed FreeBSD once if it would let me do that...it did...i had to reinstall haha

[quote]rm -rf /bin/laden That's a good signature. No need for the silly animated gif there.

Well, "System Folder" is owned by the system, so you need to change permissions to delete it in get info (or just do a 'sudo rm -r /System\\ Folder/' in terminal).

... (or just do a 'sudo rm -r /System\\ Folder/' in terminal ... , which would ruin osx. 'sudo rm -r ...' should always be used ...