OS X V10.7 Lion :: Cannot Delete File From Desktop - No Info On Right Click
Mar 17, 2012
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
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May 31, 2012
I am trying to delete a desktop pdf file. I am unable to send to trash. I get the following message:
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)
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Dec 2, 2009
take a look at the attached screenshot. I was trying to uninstall the Ultralingua application, so I searched for "Ultralingua" in the Finder, and included system files in the search to ensure that plists and the like would also be tracked down.
I deleted all files except one: As you may see on the screenshot, there is one file that has
- no name
- no size
- no location
- no permission settings
- no icon
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Nov 29, 2007
I 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?
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Jan 20, 2009
There's a file on my desktop that was being copied from an external SD card but was interrupted. Now I cannot delete the freaking thing....what's going on? I've tried rebooting and then deleting, but that didn't work.
I get an error message that says "Some of the items you are moving are in use by another application. Moving the items can cause problems with the application using them. Are you sure you want to move these items?"
Clicking "Continue" doesn't actually delete the file....dragging and dropping the file into the trash also does nothing.
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Sep 8, 2002
I have an mp3 file on the desktop I am unable to move to trash.
Everytime I attempt to move to trash it says "the file is being used by another task right now". This message occurs even if I close every program I am running.
I opened the process viewer, but I don't see anything that could possibly be using an mp3 file.
the only player i have is iTunes and it is off.
I attempted to duplicate the file on the desktop, but was told that "you do not have sufficient priviledges". But I have rwx for everything!
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Jul 4, 2012
My macbook desktop is frozen, only desktop. Everything else works fine. I logged into my other account on the computer I have, the desktop is fine, I can right click the desktop and it will bring the menu up, however, on the side that I use frequently, I cannot right click on the desktop, NOR can I drag anything to the desktop. All my software is up to date, I tried booting up in safe mode, I also used the force quit and relaunch, restarted computer many times, still nothing. Also weird about this is that itunes deleted itself earlier today, I had to re-download and install it again. The problem is happening since then. Finally, I read somewhere I may need to re-boot my computer with the lion CD; however, I don't have the CD I downloaded from the app store!
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jul 2, 2012
I can't open a personal folder on my desktop without using my keyboard or right clicking then open. Is there a way I can change settings to just double click top open a folder or file?
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MacBook Air
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Apr 19, 2012
I was working on a file in GarageBand, I saved the .band file on my desktop, but after I quit GarageBand without saving the work, the .band file went a little weird. I tried dragging it to the trash and cmd-delete it but the message came up saying "The item Recording Final.band be moved to the Trash because it cant be deleted." Later I launched GarageBand again, and when I tried to drag the weird .band file from desktop to the GarageBand icon on my dock, the dock appears to crash, my wallpaper went gray for a second and then the dock came back up. Also when I select the file and hit space bar to do a quick look it shows up saying No Items Selected. I like to keep my desktop tidy don't want these files here blocking the way.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 24, 2012
I have several Alias Icons on my desktop which are unable to be removed. I have tried changing the rw permission and reselecting the original appliaction etc. But still unable to delete these alias icons. can someone point me in the right dircetion to use Terminal command such as rm -f file name to permanetely remove these left over icons. Before OS X Lion 10.7 I was able to chmod etc and delete the icon.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 22, 2012
I am having a problem accessing any files on my desktop. I cannot delete, edit or move files there. I have rebooted and repaired permissions using disk utility. When trying to perform any task with files on the desktop, the icon freezes and gets 'stuck' to the mouse and prevents me from performing other tasks. It also prevents shut down (have to hard shut down with the power key).Current permissions for the Desktop folder are drwx
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Sep 2, 2014
I am willing to save on my hard disk the content of a SD card that contains mts files that I can access via AVCHD, BDMV, STREAM.
When I copy the whole SD card to save on my hard disk, I get an error message saying that the copy cannot proceed because one of the file contains information that cannot be read.
I was told on this group, that changing the structure of the AVCHD folder should not be changed. Can I delete the file that contains a bug ? or will I screw up the AVCHD folder ?Â
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Jul 23, 2007
Anyone come across a problem where all the desktop icons disappear? I also cannot right click on my desktop to bring up a contextual menu, my machine appears to be running faultlessly apart from that. I have run Onyx to reset permissions and have checked the disk but cannot seem to find anything wrong.
Running OSX 10.10 on a quad core 2.66 Mac Pro.
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Jun 2, 2014
How do you delete items from the desktop as well as downloads and other documents?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
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Mar 29, 2012
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)
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Mar 31, 2012
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)
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Mar 31, 2012
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)
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Mar 8, 2012
I have a newly set up MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.2. I have created a numbers file that is NOT saved on the Desktop. I have an icon of that file on the Desktop and can select it but the file doesn't exist. I have navigated to the folder as su in Terminal and the file doesn't exist. The icon shows on the Desktop though. The numbers document you can see above the selected is the numbers document that I saved after I had seen what I have described above. When I saved it there was no prompt to overwrite the file because it doesn't exist
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Mar 18, 2012
I created a new project in Garageband called QE2.band on my desktop, I imported a midi file into the project, made some changes and saved it.This created two Icons on my desktop. Both with the same exact name of QE2.band. One had the standard document looking icon with the Guitar, and the second which looked like a minni screenshot of my GB tracks.I later moved the one with the "Tracks" icon to my music folder in the "Grarge Band" sub folder. I can still access this project just fine. But the Icon with the document looking Icon with the Guitar still appears on my desktop.If I double click on this desktop Icon, is is highligted with the selection rectangle, but does nothing.If I attempt to drag this Icon to the Trash in the Dock I get the message box saying "The item "QE2.band" can't be moved to the trash because it can't be deleted."If I RIGHT CLICK (CONTROL-CLICK) on this icon and select "Move to Trash", I get the same dialog box as above.If I open a Finder window in my desktop directory, the file does not appear.If I open up the "Terminal" app and cd to my desktop folder and execute the ls -la command, I do not see this file QE2.band.If I include the ls switches to how hidden (beginning with a ".") and including the -i to show the files id/inode number, including a null file spec, an "*" file spec or the actual file name "QE2.band" as the file spec, it still responds with file not found:ix:Desktop jeff$ pwd/Volumes/IX User/Users/jeff/Desktopix:Desktop jeff$ ls -la QE2.bandls: QE2.band: No such file or directory [code]
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 27, 2012
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
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Apr 27, 2012
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
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May 9, 2012
how to delete file after error code -8072 mac os 10.7.3
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 8, 2012
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)
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May 15, 2012
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
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Jun 23, 2012
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
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Jun 4, 2014
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)
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Apr 1, 2012
My son was playing on the internet and when I told him to get off the "Desktop Info" box was opened. The modified date and time were recent too. Also, a target rich folder might have been renamed. How do I know if my computer has been exposed ?
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i mac - iphone
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Apr 2, 2009
how can i delete information from a picture-
so the picture no longer shows up in my Finder search?
i tend to search using the Finder Command-F searchbox
i put in the word "party" and all these unrelated pictures come up.
i assume there's some appendant info attached to the pic --somewhere-- but i can't even seem to successfully delete the "picture keywords" using preview
not sure where the keywords i want to delete are stored, really-- cause in preview, i cant even find the keyword "party"...
i know a simple way would be to search for "party" only using the title search, but sometimes i want the broader search. there must be a way to alter a pic file to make it not show up on searches, no?
i'm macbok pro. 10.4.11 MS Office 2004 11.5.3
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May 10, 2012
Got a new MacBook Pro and want to give my grandson old MacBook - how do I delete all info, etc on the od unit? Can I do a reset like I can on my iPod/iPad?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 21, 2012
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)
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