muitommy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i can get rid of this file by dragging the file out of the bin, but a moment later, it appears again in the bin ... sry i can't provide any more info here, cus this file seems appear out of the blue ... hope someone can help me a bit! thanks!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I had this heck too and I thought is a first virus for Mac. Go in your Fat32 partition with Disk Order, make visible your hidden file, look in your .Trashes directory and remove the heck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 There's a program called ONYX load it, it has a secure recycle bin contents remover It also has many other nice utilities one can use! SticMAN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 There's a program called ONYX load it, it has a secure recycle bin contents removerIt also has many other nice utilities one can use! SticMAN Doesn't work with Onyx, Cocktail, Mainmenu, or others. The useless file is in the trash of the Fat32 partition. Onyx doesn't work in that area. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 @XanthraX, thanks, will try later. but now have some problems downloading the disk order (the link seems to be dead:( @sticman, thanks ... i tried the secure delete in onyx, but doesn't work p.s. i locate the bad file in .trash (fat32 partition), and delete it through parallels, but windows cannot locate the file ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Try Disk Order in www.versiontracker.org, and type "Disk Order" in the Search box. It is shareware, but you can do what you need. In Windows, under Parallels, even you can see the hidden files, you cannot remove these, because is active when MacOSX runs. You can delete it without Disk Order if you know how to use the terminal Open Terminal [/Applications/Utilities/Terminal] and type: sudo -s [Enter] Password type your password here (it is not shown) [Enter] cd /Volumes/YourFat32VolumeName/.Trashes [Enter] ls you will see the name of the file rm -rf thenameoftheheck [Enter] exit quit Terminal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I have another idea, call me crazy if you like? Why don't you post the file here and we will delete it for you!! SticMAN Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 Try Disk Order in www.versiontracker.org, and type "Disk Order" in the Search box. It is shareware, but you can do what you need.In Windows, under Parallels, even you can see the hidden files, you cannot remove these, because is active when MacOSX runs. You can delete it without Disk Order if you know how to use the terminal Open Terminal [/Applications/Utilities/Terminal] and type: sudo -s [Enter] Password type your password here (it is not shown) [Enter] cd /Volumes/YourFat32VolumeName/.Trashes [Enter] ls you will see the name of the file rm -rf thenameoftheheck [Enter] exit quit Terminal thanks for your help. hmm, doesn't work ... try disk order, no difference after pressing delete (see screenshot) terminal the same, error, file name too long ... this let me think of , last time i had the similar rubbish in windows side (very large size), i ended up format the drive to remove it ... (some privileges things) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 This is for StickMAN. muitommy, can you boot into Windows, to see these partition? If yes, try delete it from there. Firstly, make visible the hidden files or folders in Explorer. Or try in windows to get a checkdisk on this partition. AFAIK, I deleted it with DiskOrder. You can look in Google "nul file in Trash" or something else. You can find other solutions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 You are an evil person. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 i wouldn't mind to send a copy for you if i can move that heck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Use Unlocker in Windows to remove it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 unlocker won't help cus windows cannot locate the file, not cannot be accessed... but i can change the directory name, and now it disappear in my bin and become a visible file in finder... wtf Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Congrats. Just remember. The nulnulnul file is in the .Trashes directory in the Fat32 partition. You find a solution to delete it. You can delete the entire .Trashes directory. Mac OS X will create one when it access the fat32 partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 yea, i move the *heckfile* somewhere in the sub directory, but i have no way to delete it anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-653984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panik Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I had a file like this once on a USB key, turns out the file system was corrupted Have you tried booting into single user mode before loginwindow starts and deleting .Trashes manually? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-655836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntsmkfob Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 i can get rid of this file by dragging the file out of the bin,but a moment later, it appears again in the bin ... sry i can't provide any more info here, cus this file seems appear out of the blue ... hope someone can help me a bit! thanks!! I had a similar problem. The files were on a network drive, and everytime I logged on to the network drive, they were put back in Trash. I had to delete them manually from the .Trash folder on the network drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-655842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 I had a file like this once on a USB key, turns out the file system was corrupted :thumbsdown_anim:Have you tried booting into single user mode before loginwindow starts and deleting .Trashes manually?i can only move the file somewhere within the drive, but no way to delete it .. cus terminal said the file name is too long..wtffor remedy, i can only make it out of my sight ... I had a similar problem. The files were on a network drive, and everytime I logged on to the network drive, they were put back in Trash. I had to delete them manually from the .Trash folder on the network drive.you're lucky, i can't even delete it manually .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-656086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Drag it to your hard drive, rename it to something short, and use rm -rf from terminal to trash it! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-656094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 omg, that {censored} disappear finally after reboot ... i don't really remember what i have done /// lol but i think the key point is move it somewhere ..heh Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-656104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 it caused problem as it had a \ in the file name. All you had to do was rm -rf and file name but for every \ you must put two \. It would have then deleted it without issues. Quirks of UNIX Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/91654-how-could-i-remove-this-heck/#findComment-657350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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