Can't Delete Files From Trash. Tried Everything!

While cleaning my external harddrive, I sent movie files to the trash. However, upon emptying the trash, three Unix Executable Files remained. I cannot for the life of me find a way to delete them. The "Get Info" page says the files are "Zero bytes (1 kb on disk)," and that I have "unknown access" the directory for the files is "/Volumes/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/.Trashes/501." I attempted to recreate the folder locations on the external, but when I try to drag the files from the trash back to the drive, I get either error code 36 or 8072. Ive tried to securely delete and also tried third party applications to no avail. However, When I eject the harddrive, my trash is empty. It is only when the harddrive is plugged in that the trash is full. Please Help!

nevermind. I repaired the disk and it deleted the files

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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html
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Message was edited by: Chase9998

Chase9998 wrote:
That worked!! Thank you so much. Can't believe I went through all those other methods and it was as simple as a Windows chkdsk. I wonder how it even happened that the Windows partition created an undeletable file in my OS X partition??
it actually wasn't in the OS X partition. it was still in the windows partition but due to some file system errors in the windows partition it became visible (but not deletable) from OS X.

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very strange that finder would be using it.
do this. paste the following into Script Editor (it's in /Applications/utilities) and press the run button.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html#Anchor-Files-46919
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Thank you for sharing this thread #Post 31. Ill try permissions tweaking and see of that works .
This was a first for me being a beta tester for LTR5 . I do wonder when I bought the upgrade and Downloaded LTR5 that bug appeared beacuse of being a beta tester .
Trying to rule out all sorts of things here :
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