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[switchedanhappy]

I installed a menu bar cpu activity monitor on my powermac, but unfortunately, cannot now figure out how to delete it and be rid of it . it's by unsanity (unsanity.com) but they seem to have nearly no info on how to actually get rid of it after it's installed. does anyone know how to deal with this thing?

 

[LeeTom]

Try holding down the Command(Apple) key, and drag it off the menu bar.

Lee Tom

 

[switchedanhappy]

it goes away, (the poof animation)but when I trie to delete cee pee you.menu, it says it's in use.

 

[switchedanhappy]

how can you force-delete somthing? like override the "cannot empty trash" alert?

 

[FredAkbar]

Once the thing is in the trash, open Terminal, and type:

rm -r ~/.Trash/*

If that doesn't work, try it using sudo (only works if you're an administrator account):

sudo rm -r ~/.Trash/*

It will ask you for your admin password, so enter it. This always works for me for deleting an in-use file. I never use it without sudo, so I don't know if that makes a difference on rm's ability to delete an in-use file.

 

[Veldek]

Try either a restart or use the terminal:

sudo rm "file"

Enter your (admin) password and it will be deleted.

Edit: Oops, this happens when you forget to refresh...

 

[Abstract]

Do you still have the Installer program? Sometimes there's an uninstall option, but only when you go into the Install program.

 

[jsw]

Go to System Preferences...->Accounts->[your account]->Startup Items and make sure it isn't there (if so, select it and delete it using the '-' icon). Now it won't run when you start up, and you'll be able to delete it. Presumably, no one else is logged onto the Mac and using it at this time?

 

[switchedanhappy]

thanks, you guys are my heroes. I'm sticking to konfabulator from now on.