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Trash Can is behaving weirdly

Hello Apple Support Communities.

I am having a recent problem with the Trash Can on my Mac.

I had a locked file from my Windows partiton that I could not simply throw away.

So I went to my Mac place and just threw it away from there.

But now, even after the file was deleted forever, the file is still there, like a ghost.

It's just there, but no longer a folder, but now a unknown 'Unix Excutable File'.

I don't think it is an actual file, as the Trash Can empties quite easily, and talks about no errors that that file cannot be deleted.

Any ways to solve this problem? I tried the sudo rm -rf command, and the file is still there, and the command just says that that file is no longer there, but it's stil there.

Thank you for your interest! 🙂

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Oct 8, 2013 12:48 AM

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Trash Can is behaving weirdly

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