trash and permission

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Hi experts,

I am trying to remove a large file from my desktop (1GB).

it was the old user account from my Girlfriends laptop we put there as a backup when she switched computers.

when i put it in the trash i cannot delete the file, it says that all of files are locked. when i try to change ownership or unlock the files, it says i do not have permisson for some of the files.

is there a handy terminal line to force this issue? I am the admin on my computer. i tried rm -rf ~/.trash but again it listed many errors about lacking permission and did not delete the file.

please help.

thank you.

 

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follow-up:

ok, so the problem seems to be the locked files. there are many in many different files, but i can unlock them one image set at a time, but there are probably 100+ folders with 40+ images each. in each folder i can select all and unlock, but i cant seem to do it with folders and their contents. is there an easy way to do this?

 

[reh]

Here's several apps for locking/unlocking multiple files at once (i've never used any of them).

Locker
Golden Key
Trash Locked Files

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Dude, just hold OPTION down and empty trash.

Boom. All locked files deleted.