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AngryStyro

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Apr 12, 2012
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I am usually fairly resourceful, but this has me stumped. I backed up all of my old data to an external HD a while ago and have this HUGE (25gb) iMovie project sitting there that I can't delete!

Apple have given it some stupid special read only superpowers. I have been trying to get rid of it through terminal, I tried sudo rm -rf on it, came up ".../My Great Movie.iMovieProject/Audio Waveforms/Extracted Audio 01.aiff.snp: Read-only file system" for every file.

Then tried sudo rm -r, override rw-r--r-- _unknown/_unknown for .../My Great Movie.iMovieProject/Audio Waveforms/Extracted Audio 01.aiff.snp? y

.../My Great Movie.iMovieProject/Audio Waveforms/Extracted Audio 01.aiff.snp: Read-only file system

Again!~ Arggaghjhjabdabjsahabfjhl driving me nuts
 
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