deleting corrupt application file

[musikman_ie]

hi ,

looking for some help

Upgraded Neo Office durning the week which is working fine , forgot the order of things but

Left with a corrupt application file which i can't delete from the trash , hangs the finder when trying to

Have tried permission repair , and info on file is set to read write , tried both system and current user access

is there a way to delete via terminal , file size is about 186 Mb

thanks in advance

 

[mad jew]

Well, read through this and then maybe this. Does this help?

 

[musikman_ie]

will try tommorrow when I'm back at the mac

Cheers

 

[musikman_ie]

didn't work , tried something else off apples website aswell

goign to try and creat a new user and move to trash from there

 

[janey]

it should have worked.

Try this:

sudo rm -rf

with a space after it
Then drag the file you're trying to delete. Be very careful. Don't hit enter, and watch out If somehow you do hit it without meaning it, just hit control+c as fast as you can.

Sudo will ask you for an administrator password. It's perfectly normal for it to display messages like "We trust you have received a lecture from your local System Administrator..." or something like that.

 

[musikman_ie]

tried that sudo command from apple support

tried with item in trash and on desktop and other locations

just hangs everything

tried repairing permissions again

waht has changed now is the size if the file , the package was and is still corrupt but is now 2.6 mb as opposed to 150 mb plus which i can live with

Thanks to everyone for suggestions

 

[janey]

that's bizarre...disk utility? run fsck on the machine?
probably doesn't annoy you, but that sounds just bizarre..

 

[musikman_ie]

fsck ?

is that similar to chkdesk for Windows ?

how does one run it ?

its not annoying me but more curious now as I repair PC for a living etc

 

[janey]

restart, go into single user mode, and type in

/sbin/fsck -yf

and let it run.

man fsck

for more info on it, in a Terminal.app window (it's in /Applications/Utilities)

 

[musikman_ie]

how does one go to single user mode ?

 

[janey]

i don't remember the details...it's either just "S" or command+s at startup...go google?

you'll get tossed into a command line interface where you just type that /sbin/fsck -yf stuff and let it run.

 

[mad jew]

The fsck according to Apple. Single user mode can be enabled by starting up whilst holding COMMAND-S.