Can't delete Unix Executable Files

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Can't delete Unix Executable Files

I have this 1TB Toshiba hard drive and everytime I connect it to my Mac 3 Unix Executable Files appear in the Trash and I can't get rid of them. I tried Emptying the trash, Secure emptying the trash, deleting with Terminal (with the rm command) but the files are still there!!!

And there's another files of the same type in the root folder of this hard drive which I can't even move to the trash because when I try to do it an error pops up saying "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in 'fseventsd-uuid' can't be read or written (Error code -36)"

I was reading other posts in which people say that I can just change the file extension and it will do it but I can't even do that... The same error appears...

Oh! and when I eject the disk the Trash is empty!

I had this problem before in my Mac and I din't know how to fix it so I formatted the disk and reinstalled the OS but I don't want to format my ExHDD everytime I have this problem... There must me another way to fix this...

Please help me!

I have a 13" MacBook Pro with MacOS X 10.8.3

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 26, 2013 2:47 PM

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Niel

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Apr 26, 2013 2:48 PM in response to juanjogini

Use the Disk Utility's Repair Disk command on that drive.

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Apr 27, 2013 4:17 PM in response to Niel

Thanks! I tried that already and after that all the files on my hard disk were gone...

I probably should add that when I say hard disk is always my external hard disk, and it's a NTFS disk...

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Apr 27, 2013 6:33 PM in response to juanjogini

The error code "-36" is a "generic" file I/O error. Since you mention this is an NTFS formatted partition you are using, then I would suggest that you contact the vendor for the NTFS filesystem driver for assistance with that error code.

As for your trash showing empty when the drive is not attached, that would make sense, as each drive stores its own trash locally. I have files in the trash on my external drive I use for my iTunes library because I keep forgetting to empty the trash when I have the drive attached. When the drive is attached, they show in the trash, but when it is disconnected, they are no longer in the trash of my Mac (because the trash bin is local to the drive itself).

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juanjogini Author

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Apr 29, 2013 2:13 PM in response to GeekBoy.from.Illinois

I finally fixed the problem and I'm gonna share with you the solution...

I just had to check the disk for errors, but I did it on Windows with the "chkdsk /r" command... DO NOT try to do it on Mac OS X if you have a NTFS disk or you will ruin your partition since Mac has little or no support for the NTFS filesystem...

So there it is... After the extensive check all the files were gone!

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