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the Trash. In Mac OS X, each user account has a separate, invisible Trash folder that is in the home folder. When you view contents of https://support.apple.com/en-ng/HT201583 the Trash, you see only items you placed there and not the Trash folder of https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97210 any other accounts. If other writable volumes are present, you may also have individual Trash folders on these volumes. How to delete a file Drag an item's icon to the Trash (in the Dock), or select the item and press Command-Delete. Choose Empty Trash from the Finder menu. Note: If you're trying to delete a file that wasn't completely delete file downloaded or copied, check out this document. Tip: In Mac OS X v10.3 or later, you can securely delete items by choosing Secure Empty Trash from the Finder menu. If you change your mind about deleting the item before you choose Empty Trash: Click the Trash icon in the dock. Drag the item out of the Trash. If you can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash For example, this can't delete file message might appear when you try to empty the Trash: "The operation could not be completed because the item '(item name)' is locked." First, try holding the Option key as you choose Empty Trash from the Findermenu. Otherwise, check for these conditions: Is the file locked? If files are locked, unlock them before deleting or delete using the tips in the "Deleting locked files" section below. Also, see this article. Do you have correct permissions to modify the file? Every file and folder in Mac OS X has some permission settings to help define what you or other users can do with the file or folder, for example whether you may modify it or not. If see an alert box with a message that says you do not have "sufficient" privilege or permission, see the tips in the "Emptying the Trash" section of this article. Does the file or volume have special characters? Usually, Mac OS X can delete files whose names contain special characters, but sometimes you might need to follow this advice. Note the name of the volume which the files are being deleted from. If you are not sure of the item's location, you can verify that by selecting it then choosing Show Info from the File menu. If the name of the volume contain
1 #1 2010-05-16 08:17:29 rent0n Member From: Italy Registered: 2009-10-29 Posts: 457 Website [Solved using Windows] Can't delete files: I/O error! Hi, Yesterday I've used my 500 GB external hard drive to backup some files from my girlfriend's Windows computer.While copying files I noticed some errors about some .wma files that cannot be copied, but I didn't care too much about that.After removing Windows and installing Xubuntu 10.04 (which, btw, works perfectly on a quite old laptop) I copied back the backup files onto the laptop.Everything was fine and I just needed to remove those backup files from my external hard drive: impossible.Both Thunar and 'rm -fr' failed to remove these .wma files from my hard drive, reporting an I/O error:rm: cannot remove `filename.wma': Input/output errorWhat happened? Have these corrupted files corrupted my external hard drive filesystem as well?After asking a few question to Google, I realized the best thing to do was a fsck. The bad news is that this is a NTFS formatted hard disk and fcsk basically doesn't work on this filesystem. So my question is: what can I do to get rid of these files and then check that my external hard disk is ok?Any help would be much appreciated, I really don't know what to do.Thank you! Last edited by rent0n (2010-05-16 08:59:49) rent0n@deviantART | rent0n@bitbucket | rent0n@identi.ca | LRU #337812aspire: Acer Aspire 5920 Arch Linux x86_64 | beetle: Gericom Beetle G733 Arch Linux i686 Offline #2 2010-05-16 08:33:04 JackH79 Member From: Australia Registered: 2009-06-18 Posts: 663 Website Re: [Solved using Windows] Can't delete files: I/O error! Someone's been downloading videos from the internet, eh? (Edit: don't mean this in a nasty way )Anyway, the only way to fix this is to get to a windows machine and runchkdsk