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Cannot delete file in OS X

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Mar 15, 20264714 views
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Problem

I have a file in trash, and I cannot delete it. Before you ask me to STFW, no, the file is not locked :-/ The file is a symbolic link to nothing (target is deleted). Here is the output of on that file: The output of is However the file does exist, which can be confirmed by or by opening trash in Fi…

Error Output

lrwxrwxrwx  1 1000  _lpoperator  uappnd,nodump,opaque,compressed 22 Apr  3  2009 fly.pdf -> stuff.pdf

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Fix for: Cannot delete file in OS X

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has an option to not follow links (which I constantly ignored...). And then empty trash.

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