I am using a Mac rMBP with OS 10.8.4.
I accidentally restored (using CCC) the crashplan app. I deleted the app but the system won't let me empty the trash because the app is locked and I (administrator) don't have permission. I can unlock a duplicate of the app, trash it, and it deletes just fine .
The terminal commands to empty the trash doesn't blow away this file (sudo rm –rf ~/.Trash). I tried chflags -R nouchg to unclock and sudo chmod 775 / to move without success. Sometimes I get a unable to perform because the file is in use... but there is nothing in the activity monitor
The app seems to be in use but activity monitor's process list does not seem to have anything related. Info says it takes up zero bytes of disk space.
Edit: I was looking through this thread http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110105041622966 and using the script I found the troublesome file to be located in the trash of a removable USB drive. I can move the app out of the trash into a folder on that drive, so its not an issue except I'd like to clean it up.
Edit 2, starting to stretch what little unix knowledge I have:
I use terminal to drag drop the offending file into rm and get this:
rm: /Volumes/Guardian/.Trashes/502/2013-04-13 (April 13) 01-59-01/Applications/CrashPlan.app: is a directory
Oh I ran the uninstall app and no joy.
I tried to run the app through shreader (which I think does the same thing as above) and it returned an operation not permitted error.
A restart doesn't seem to kill the process using the app. I don't see anything in startup items.
I accidentally restored (using CCC) the crashplan app. I deleted the app but the system won't let me empty the trash because the app is locked and I (administrator) don't have permission. I can unlock a duplicate of the app, trash it, and it deletes just fine .
The terminal commands to empty the trash doesn't blow away this file (sudo rm –rf ~/.Trash). I tried chflags -R nouchg to unclock and sudo chmod 775 / to move without success. Sometimes I get a unable to perform because the file is in use... but there is nothing in the activity monitor
The app seems to be in use but activity monitor's process list does not seem to have anything related. Info says it takes up zero bytes of disk space.
Edit: I was looking through this thread http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110105041622966 and using the script I found the troublesome file to be located in the trash of a removable USB drive. I can move the app out of the trash into a folder on that drive, so its not an issue except I'd like to clean it up.
Edit 2, starting to stretch what little unix knowledge I have:
I use terminal to drag drop the offending file into rm and get this:
rm: /Volumes/Guardian/.Trashes/502/2013-04-13 (April 13) 01-59-01/Applications/CrashPlan.app: is a directory
Oh I ran the uninstall app and no joy.
I tried to run the app through shreader (which I think does the same thing as above) and it returned an operation not permitted error.
A restart doesn't seem to kill the process using the app. I don't see anything in startup items.
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