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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 626431" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>To tackle this one, I'd try to get a better idea of what characters that file is actually made up of. So I'd do something like (in Terminal.app) position myself in the .Trashes directory, then do a</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">$ ls | od -c</span></p><p></p><p>To get od (do a man on it, I forget what it stands for but it's a character dump utility) to show the characters to give you a better chance at forming an appropriate rm arg to get rid of the file. For example, currently I have two files in my .Trash:</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Audio Hijack Pro.app cure-b-sides.jpg</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">ls | od -c</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">0000000 A u d i o H i j a c k P r o</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">0000020 . a p p \n c u r e - b - s i d e</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">0000040 s . j p g \n </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">0000046</span></p><p></p><p>Now I don't have any weird charactered file in my trash, but since you do, you might get a somewhat useful character representation of what that file really is named.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 626431, member: 9385"] To tackle this one, I'd try to get a better idea of what characters that file is actually made up of. So I'd do something like (in Terminal.app) position myself in the .Trashes directory, then do a [FONT="Courier New"]$ ls | od -c[/FONT] To get od (do a man on it, I forget what it stands for but it's a character dump utility) to show the characters to give you a better chance at forming an appropriate rm arg to get rid of the file. For example, currently I have two files in my .Trash: [FONT="Courier New"]Audio Hijack Pro.app cure-b-sides.jpg ls | od -c 0000000 A u d i o H i j a c k P r o 0000020 . a p p \n c u r e - b - s i d e 0000040 s . j p g \n 0000046[/FONT] Now I don't have any weird charactered file in my trash, but since you do, you might get a somewhat useful character representation of what that file really is named. [/QUOTE]
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