Cannot remove legacy files, NULL character culprit?
I was browsing some legacy files from my archive of DVD‘s containing old projects from the OS 7 era and now I am unable to remove 2 of them from my trash. There are two pesky files containing a ‘NULL’ character at the start of their filenames. I cannot move or rename them, so the folder tree that contains them remains too.
I can‘t rename the files. When I move them or empty the trash, this error message appears:
I‘ve tried everything I can think of, renaming them, every UNIX command in terminal I could google up. Moving them into a temporary account and then deleting the account does not work. After deletion the user folder remains, containing only the rogue files and folders.
Please help! What can I do to get rid of these pesky files?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)