problem with window media player

[caracticus]

I have e-mac running mac os x 10.4.8 . Somehow i have managed to corrupt windows media player. My attempt to delete from the trash can led to a message regarding one of the (although it will apply to all of them) .htm files. I am sure the message I get is that it is locked. When I try "rm" in unix it tells me I do not have the necessary permission (rwxrwxrwx). My knowledge of unix is rather week. How can I delete it all and hopfully reinstall it again.
Will i need to log on as root, if so how?

 

[eric2006]

Try this:
sudo rm -R ~/.trash

 

[MisterMe]

Try pressing the [option] key while emptying the Trash.

 

[caracticus]

say cheers sudo rm -R ~/.trash worked ok only it prompted me to overide every file! still seemed to work fine so thank a lot

 

[caracticus]

However my trash can now wants to delete files straight away without waiting for the empty trash can command!

 

[barhar]

'... sudo rm -R ~/.trash worked ok only it prompted me to overide every file!' - 'sudo rm -rf ~/.trash' would not have (prompted you to overide every file).

 

[caracticus]

Thanks for everything, but having re-downloaded windows media player, it seems to just sit on my toolbar, if I select Force Quit it tell me the application is not responding.

 

[caracticus]

also if i launch wmp in another account it works.

 

[barhar]

'... it seems to just sit on my toolbar ...' - I presume you are referring to the 'Dock' (when stating 'toolbar'). On the Mac, a 'toolbar' may reside in a 'Finder' window or within an applications' window or respective floating window.

'... if i launch wmp in another account it works.' - suggests a possible corrupted '~/Library/Windows Media Player Prefs' file.

 

[caracticus]

Ok last update here, removed Windows Media Player Prefs and Windows Media Favourites from my library and everything works fine. The only downside is it reinforces how little I know about stuff.