How to delete .xml files?

[qwikstreet]

I am cleaning out my one harddrive to make room. I had a few old copies of Dreamweaver on their. When I go to delete them, I get .xml is locked. I can not delete this. Any ideas?

Thank you!

 

[LordCoven]

... you could try it with Show Info from the Finder and check to see if you have the correct permissions to delete them (sounds like you don't at the moment).

And if all else fails open a Terminal.app window and go:

cd <the dir they xml files live in>
pwd

if the pwd command shows the directory in which the xml files are, then you're in the correct directory. This isn't strictly necessary, but its good to know where you are *exactly* before you perform the next step:

sudo rm -f *.xml

This tells the system to briefly give you super-user privileges (that's the sudo bit), then remove (the rm bit) forcefully (the -f option) all files that end in '.xml' (that's the *.xml bit)
You can adapt the above to delete all manner of things. Just make sure you *never* perform a sudo rm -Rf / unless you want to have to re-install everything

You can get detailed info on all the commands with the 'man' command:
man sudo
man rm

Hope this is of some help.

C

 

[qwikstreet]

Thank you!