Sorry, my last post was made in haste -- I was about to leave, but thought I'd check the boards one more time.
There may be a way to do this without the Terminal, but I don't know of one. You can change access permissions in the Get Info box, but I don't see a way to change ownership or force delete.
The easiest, safest way I know to do this is as follows (read through this once before doing anything):
1. Open Terminal, and type "
sudo chown username ". Make sure to replace
username with your short user name. (Note: if you don't know what your short user name is, type
whoami at the Terminal prompt). Also, make sure to leave a trailing space after the command above. Don't press enter yet.
2. Find the folder you want to delete in the Finder, and drag it onto the Terminal window. The full path to the folder will be added to the command line, and it will automatically put a \ in front of any spaces. The command might look something like this:
Code:
sudo chown nkuvu /Temporary\ Items
3. Press enter. You're almost there.
4. Type your password when it asks for it, and press enter.
You're done with the Terminal now.
The
chown command changes the ownership of the folder to whatever username you want. What this command did was to tell the OS that you want to take ownership of this folder. Once that is done, you can delete it like any other folder. The chown command won't mess anything up that can't be undone. The worst you could do (that I can think of off the top of my head) is to change ownership of a folder that you didn't want. But then you could just change it right back, so I don't think you can mess up your system by using this command. You can mess things up using
rm, so be careful with that one if you ever use it.
Let me know if you have any questions or problems, PM or email me for a faster response.
