There appears an unknown file on the desktop. I cannot delete it, cannot open information about it, cannot move it away. When trying to delete it a message appears "This file cannot be moved into trash". I have no idea what it might be, however I want to delete this file. This file might be seen on the desktop only, but not in the finder window.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I was using Logic Pro X and the program crashed before I could save my project. There is now a file called "untitled" that appears to be a Logic Project file, however I cannot delete, open, rename, and move it anywhere. When I try to click and drag the file icon, it doesn't allow me to move it anywhere.  Â
When right-click on the file, it pops up the window, but there are only a few options available. I went to "get info" and saw that the file permissions are "unknown". I've tried repairing disk permissions in the disk utility, however the file is still unaccessible.It's not a large file (only 578K), but it would still like to remove it.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
got automatically put into the Logic Pro discussions, however it's not really a Logic question or issue, more of a disk permission issue (I think..). Here is the original post: URL.... I'm stuck with this file on my system and how to remove it.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
iMac > Intel Core 2 Duo > 2 GHz
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
When I open, "Users > user myname, I find files with names such as ;
G%C6u%ACX%B7%EA4%99%88%FF%E8
or
%FDpot%CB0J
There 45 of them.
the ones I opened are empty TextEdit files.
What are they and can I delete them?
A download file that reads:
You have chosen to open "gdoodle.pl"
From [URL]
I always hit cancel, cleaned my chache's and it keeps appearing every hour or so.
could it be a spyware? or malware?
See Attachment of the picture.
When I put it in the trash and tries to delete it, it tells me that it is in use, even if it's not, and no program but the finder is running.So I've gone with the terminal solution.I type "sudo rm-f " with a space after the f, drag my file. It ask me for my password that I type, and it says command not found.And then if I type sudo rm-f again, it tells me again that the command is not found.It was like a second ago, and not anymore?Does anyone have an idea on how to get rid of that file?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
When I try to drag what appears from the icon to be an Excel xlsx file into the trash, I get a message that says, "The item A220D310 can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted". When I try to "Get Info" to see what the file is, I get nothing. Excel recently locked on me andf was auto started and I do not need the file and want it off of my desktop. How can I get ride of this file?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
iTunes often tells me it can't save my library file anymore. When I check my itl file in the Finder, it isn't linked to iTunes anymore ("open with") and my permissions are listed as "you have unknown access". If I quit and restart iTunes it says the Library file cannot be found. A simple reboot solves this problem every time, but it shouldn't happen in the first place.
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The item "DepositTicket(1).pdf" can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Quote:
mbpesktop alexus$ file $$.txt
235.txt: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
mbpesktop alexus$
Yet this isn't really ISO-8859 but 8859-5 (Russian). File opens up on Windows just fine (I can see russian characters) and on MAC I get either some unknown symbols or question marks.
Everytime I open my iTunes I get one of two errors. The one in this title is the latest and it is annoying.Â
The second I think has to do with Genius, states it cannot connect to the iTunes store at the moment.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I file has appeared on my desktop. I believe it's a temp file created while downloading something in Safari. When I try to delete it, I get "The item x can't be moved to the trash because it can't be deleted". I tried right click > Get Info, and nothing happens (the info dialog does not appear). I tried ls -al on my desktop, and the file doesn't appear in the list.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 15-Inch early 2008
After upgrading Lion OS X, I can not delete file on Lion partition from win 7. It always says "This file is too large...".
Info:MacBookPro, Windows7
i install some plugins for Premerie and Final Cut. After that a file __MACOSX appears in my applications, does any knows what it is? And can i delete it or it will harm my mac.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), i7 quad core 2.3GHz,8 Gb Ram
how to delete file after error code -8072 mac os 10.7.3
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Dialog box keeps opening with message Itunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occured (-54).Â
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iMac, OS X Server
How do I delete all versions of a file (eg, a mail attachment containing a virus) from a Time Machine backup?
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iMac Intel, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
i can't delete, move, rename file, folder in my memory.
i can't format, erase on disk utility.Â
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MacBook Pro, MC313
Suddenly Finder keeps asking me to input my password whenever I delete a file to the trash. Emptying the trash is fine, though.I thought maybe I had clicked an option in Onyx that caused this, but having looked several times, I can't see anything in Onyx that would cause this. I've tried repairing disk permissions using Disk Utility, with no effect.
Info:MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8 GB RAM
Am using OS X Lion 10.7.3, All of a sudden Finder ALWAYS asks for my password each and everytime I try to delete or move a file- How can I remove this?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I recently discovered, after running Disk Inventory X, some really fat files in my Library. I haven't touched them, as I read on another forum that it could be dangerous but is there anything I can do to get rid of them? I thought maybe they were left there after a recent Time Machine backup because I read that happening to someone else in another forum...
I've attached screenshots (I think) of the two biggest files.
This morning I suddenly found out that, on my new macbook pro, command-delete will delete the file (with the warning window) immediately without putting it into trash first. This function works well yesterday.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am relatively new to the Mac. I have a Macbook Pro 2.2GHz. Today, a file keeps popping up on my desktop. It is named .DS_Store. The icon looks like a text document. I won't open it cuz I'm afraid of what it is, lol (Windows still clogging my brain). Anyway, I can drag it to the trash and delete the trash, but after a bit, it reappears.
Any idea how to get rid of it?
After I installed OS X I decided to go through my other partitions & do a little spring cleaning. In all, I trashed over 400MB of crap, but one file has refused to be deleted (it's a locked file left over from the old 3Com ISDN modem I had). When I try to empty the trash I get the following message:
"The operation cannot be completed because the item 'IQ320.BIN' is locked."
So, I look through the system help & find out that I either need to log in to OS X as the user who created the document ('root') or restart into OS 9 & unlock it from there.
Well, neither tactic has worked thus far. I restarted into OS 9 but found out that I can't access the file because it's in the trash (in OS X), which is an invisible directory (/Langly/.Trashes/102/). So then I restarted into OS X, logged in as root, but I still couldn't delete it. Desperate, I opened terminal, switched to root (su) found the files, but still can't delete the darned file. I tried rm, mv (thought if I moved it to somewhere that OS 9 could see it...), even chown, but each time I got "Operation not permitted." Any thoughts out there?
how can i delete a file that says that it is still use when the trash can is emptied and the file is not opened
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
In the last few days I have found that Safari automatically downloads files called "Unknown". It sometimes happens when I am using another application so it doesn't seem related to something that I have just done. Also I find that Safari is DEAD slow with some pages or part of the content of some pages. Here's what I have tried so far. I have deleted all the plist files in both the user account and the library folder in the system folder. I have zapped the PRAM, rebuilt permissions and restarted in safe mode. I have Resert Safari and Emptied the Cache under the Safari menu. I have also updated my antivirus and run it. The sites that load slowly do not behave the same way in Firefox, but I would like to use Safari for most of these most of the time. Any suggestions of a cure would be most welcome.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 30" cinema display and 23" Samsung
Whenever i log into my terminal i noticed that i see that my hostname says unkown040ccedf8e88: ny name, is this normal? because i know that my friends MPA's have a different host name, and when i type in "hostname" on terminal, it gives me that unkown###
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have a WD Passport. It used to do this annoying thing, where in addition to the actual drive, it would load a virtual vcd drive containing the smartware software too. (This was common to a lot of WD products). To get rid of this, I installed the WD Software on my mac, and changed the settings to that it no longer displayes the VCD. This made the VCD dissappear, but now it shows a new drive called "Boot OS X" , everytime I plug my WD drive in!Â
I don't know what this drive is! And now I have the same equivalent problem to that stupid vcd drive popping up! When I plug my WD drive in, all I want to see is only one icon for the WD drive. Right now I have "Boot OS X" , and "Keanu's Time Machine". I only want "Keanu's Time Machine" to pop up when I plug in the drive.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
i have a file on my macbook pro called recycler and I cannot get rid of it from the trash
its says .vmx is locked
and having gone in to it i see the file
jwgkvsq.vmx has a locked sign by it
any ideas how to get rid of this ?
