Ghosts in the machine/undeletable items

[sirharper]

Anybody else dislike how even the root user is unable to trash deleted user home folders? Don't even get me started on privilage problems on OS 10.x Server.

 

[DMCrimson]

in terminal either rmdir or rm -rf something...refer to other threads on this.

do not try this if you are faint at heart, improper use of rm can yield you total loss of your data.

 

[sirharper]

Yeah, I am of the opinion that the Command Line shouldn't need to be used. Seems like a flaw in the GUI to me.

 

[DMCrimson]

but still it's one of the most effective bits of OS X, you can do almost everything from there...
hmm, BatChmod might prove useful in your case...do a search on versiontracker for it.

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