How can I delete a folder? Not as simple as you'd think..

killsta · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:04

I've just been backing up stuff to my external HDD and I've found a folder that has 'locked itself'..and I can't for the life of me unlock it/delete it.

Here's the folder info:

All of the permissions are identical to the other folders which aren't locked:

rm -rf fails as does sudo rm -Rf

I've tried 'unlocking' it via various terminal locking commands:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031017061722471

Nothing works!

Anybody any ideas? Please nobody say "untick 'Locked' in Folder Info"...

killsta · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:36

Justin said:
Does plain old remove not work?

Code:

rm -R

You could try Force Delete.

Read my post again bud

killsta · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:38

This is a FAT32 drive if that helps ;-)

macfb - can't find a padlock

EDIT: 404 when trying to download forcedelete too

killsta · 7 Feb 2008 at 21:03

Cheers mate, while give that a go when I can be bothered to take it to a windows PC!

killsta · 9 Feb 2008 at 15:27

keogh said:
EDIT

Oops I saw what you wrote about the uncheck locked... but why dont that work? I had thje exact same prob with FAT32 and it worked fine for me??

Because when I click it, it won't untick