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[prnoct90]

For some reason a file titled "␀␀␀␀␀.␀␀␀", without the quotes. Thats it, and it keeps coming back. It just keeps appearing in my trash. When I empty my trash it doesn't go away. The only way I can get it to go away is by dragging it out of the trash to the desktop, and then it disappears. But, then it just comes right back. How do I get rid of it.

 

[GirthP]

what is that!! ha ha... weird.

 

[dsnort]

For some reason a file titled "?????.???", without the quotes. Thats it, and it keeps coming back. It just keeps appearing in my trash. When I empty my trash it doesn't go away. The only way I can get it to go away is by dragging it out of the trash to the desktop, and then it disappears. But, then it just comes right back. How do I get rid of it.

An Excorcist, perhaps?

 

[GirthP]

have you done a "Get Info"?

try opening it in textedit... or a command line text editor...

 

[Ugg]

Have you tried "Secure Empty Trash"?

 

[GirthP]

Try this:

Open Disk utility, Repair Disk...

??

 

[prnoct90]

It is so weird

I don't know what to do? As soon as I drag it out of the trash, it just dissapears, so I can't open it. But then it just reapears in the trash again like5 seconds later? I'll try a secure empty trash when I'm with my laptop again, and see if that gets rid of it, though I have a feeling it won't. : (

 

[Foxglove9]

That's pretty cool looking, never seen characters like that before.

I think booting up from your OS disc and using disc utility to verify disk and repair permissions is a good start. Then start backtracking, how long has it been there, have you installed any new applications recently, changed ram, etc...

 

[Cromulent]

I think booting up from your OS disc and using disc utility to verify disk and repair permissions is a good start. Then start backtracking, how long has it been there, have you installed any new applications recently, changed ram, etc...

Never repair permissions when booting from the CD. Always do it when booting from your hard drive.

 

[BigPrince]

I have it too, but it stopped bothering me. I've had it since I installed leopard pretty much.


When I went to get info, it disappeared....

 

[pulsewidth947]

Never repair permissions when booting from the CD. Always do it when booting from your hard drive.

Why? Someone at AppleCare told me this was the only effective way once.

 

[JPT]

Boot into Windows and empty your trash!

I had this same problem, which I believe that fixed it but I booted with Parallels so it didn't work right away.

 

[prnoct90]

Thanks

That worked. I emptied the trash in windows. I use vmware fusion by the way. Thank you so much!