Trouble Deleting Corrupt Files
Greetings,
I am a recent convert from Windows back to MAC after many years. Yesterday I had an issue where I would try to open certain foldrs and it would take upwards of 10 minutes on my Mac Pro before displaying contents (color spinning wheel, etc.). I then noticed that when this delay occurred, once something would display I could see that some of the files and/or folders were corrupted (i.e. icons were invisible and the files unviewable). I have managed to move these to a folder on my desktop (most were either JPGs, but a few cache and preference files that I was abler to replace). I have also been able to delete most, but there are about five that just won't delete. Moving them to the trash and then emptying the trash just results in a 10 minute delay before I am told that they cannot be deleted because thay are in use or unreadable. I have also tried using a program called "ShredIt", which normally will shred anything, but in this case it jsut moves these to the Trash, which still won't empty.
As a side, I am pretty sure these got corrupt when a Thunderstorm blew through the other night. I came home and shut down the computer during the storm, just as my lights flickered a little. When I powered up the next time is when the problem started. However, I also downloaded "VirusBarrier" to tried to scan my system (still have Windows Paranoia). It gets 98% done and then the computer crashes and needs to restart. I don't know if that is because of a virus or if it is because of these five corrupted files it finds.
Bottom line is everything is running fine and back to lickity split, but I really would like to delete those files off my desktop.
I am a recent convert from Windows back to MAC after many years. Yesterday I had an issue where I would try to open certain foldrs and it would take upwards of 10 minutes on my Mac Pro before displaying contents (color spinning wheel, etc.). I then noticed that when this delay occurred, once something would display I could see that some of the files and/or folders were corrupted (i.e. icons were invisible and the files unviewable). I have managed to move these to a folder on my desktop (most were either JPGs, but a few cache and preference files that I was abler to replace). I have also been able to delete most, but there are about five that just won't delete. Moving them to the trash and then emptying the trash just results in a 10 minute delay before I am told that they cannot be deleted because thay are in use or unreadable. I have also tried using a program called "ShredIt", which normally will shred anything, but in this case it jsut moves these to the Trash, which still won't empty.
As a side, I am pretty sure these got corrupt when a Thunderstorm blew through the other night. I came home and shut down the computer during the storm, just as my lights flickered a little. When I powered up the next time is when the problem started. However, I also downloaded "VirusBarrier" to tried to scan my system (still have Windows Paranoia). It gets 98% done and then the computer crashes and needs to restart. I don't know if that is because of a virus or if it is because of these five corrupted files it finds.
Bottom line is everything is running fine and back to lickity split, but I really would like to delete those files off my desktop.
2-2.66 GHz Intel Mac Pro, 2GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 23 inch Apple Cinima Display
