Cannot delete ghost files

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

By the way, and although things may have changed, as P. Phillips noted, that is not the reason why you arr not being able to drag to Terminal. That sort of procedure works just fine as always, to drag a file and have Terminal write down its full path.

FYI, it may not work if the Terminal app has not been given permission in the "Security & Privacy" System Preferences to access certain folders.

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HWTech wrote:

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

By the way, and although things may have changed, as P. Phillips noted, that is not the reason why you arr not being able to drag to Terminal. That sort of procedure works just fine as always, to drag a file and have Terminal write down its full path.

FYI, it may not work if the Terminal app has not been given permission in the "Security & Privacy" System Preferences to access certain folders.

Control access to files and folders on Mac - Apple Support

Good point.

I always have Terminal with Full Disk Access, and so this did not occur to me. Thanks.

Are you sure they are “ghost” files? Please select one and press Command-I, then post a screenshot.

By the way, and although things may have changed, as P. Phillips noted, that is not the reason why you arr not being able to drag to Terminal. That sort of procedure works just fine as always, to drag a file and have Terminal write down its full path. Also, there was a reason why it was advised in that context (as files had wrong timestamps) and it is not at all clear that the context here is similar to the one in that old thread.

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The link provided, dates back to OSX Yosemite released October 16, 2014

What worked then, does not work on Monterey Released 2021

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Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

I always have Terminal with Full Disk Access, and so this did not occur to me. Thanks.

So do I and I keep forgetting about it as well, although I have been involved in a couple other recent threads where another contributor remembered to mention it which is the only reason I thought of it when reading your post. I'm always grateful when another contributor notices any oversights or mistakes.

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