Today's round of "Me against the Mac"1 was a comprehensive victory for Steve Jobs. Fucker.
I have an ever-growing list of reasons why I hate Macs, and I'll get it out any time someone's stupid enough to bring up the platform debate.2 To such classics as "G4s don't have mechanical CD drive overrides" and "no way to interfere with a looping process", I have a new addition3:
The undeletable file.
For starters, he's invisible. And to the best of my knowledge there is no way to actually view invisible files on a Mac. You can do a search for them, which is what I ended up doing.
Then I dragged him to the trash. Since this seemed to have no effect on him whatsoever, I did it another six times. I hit delete, though with little expectation of anything happening, since the delete button on a Mac keyboard is pretty much cosmetic. I right-clicked4 and told it to "move to Trash", but apparently it didn't feel like it. So I right-clicked and selected5 the option "destroy".
Still nothing happened.
I did consider setting fire to the machine - always at the bottom of any trouble-shooting guide I author - but while it seemed likely to solve that particular problem, it didn't do much for the other problems I had.
Gosh. I must be getting soft in my old age.
What I can't figure out is whether it won't delete because it's invisible, or it won't delete because it is TRYING TO DRIVE ME TO MURDER.
Obviously, I suspect the second option. This is, after all, a Mac.
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1 It's like Britney's "Me against the Music", except the help desk is never staffed by Madonna and I get to wear more clothes. The dancemoves, however, are exactly the same.
2 I freely admit that most of the reasons I hate them don't apply to people who aren't using them to produce 23987-imaged high-resolution book files.
3 He might be new, but watch this guy, he's going places!
4 Yes, OK, "right-clicked", using ctrl-click, because Mac mouses (mice?) are also retarded.
5 With some trepidation, I might add, considering a few years back a colleague managed to delete the operating system off one of our office Macs without the machine so much as suggesting it might be a bad idea.
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FWIW, you can use regular two-button USB mice with Macs, and they work just fine. I'm using a slick four-buttons-plus-a-scroll-wheel Logitech gaming mouse with no problems.
I took an old one of those in to use once. I think someone pinched it, the bastards. It was just sort of the salt in the wound, that I was using the slinky white useless thing. Actually, no, the salt in the wound was that it was starting to stick, so it would click, but wouldn't unclick...
Try opening a Terminal, cd'ing to the directory the file is in and type
rm filename
Assuming you haven't already tried that, of course
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