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Hydramus

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Jun 30, 2007
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I have some strange files in my trash and i have no idea where they came from. When I empty the trash, they don't go away. So I've tried deleting them with terminal and they go away for a while but then within a few hours they just seem to magically come back into the trash... Also, if i try to move them onto the desktop or anywhere else they just disappear temporarily.

Anyone have any ideas what they are?
 

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I'm not sure if this will help but...

I was JUST having the same problem myself, except they were different files and I know how they got there. but ANYWAYS I was googling around (this was one of the first results, so feel lucky), but one of the other ones was this article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=8198

one of the simple things it said to do was to hold down option while using the keyboard shortcut to empty the trash. I didn't think it would work but I was surprised. oh well.
 
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