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Hi,
I am experiencing a weird problem after forcing leopard to reboot. The trash can icon is now always shown as full.
If I open the trash can in the finder there is a file named ␀␀␀␀␀.úÉ The strange thing is if i open the .Trash folder with a terminal and ls -al the folder is empty. Dragging the file out of the finder on to the desktop empties the trash, but as soon as i click on another finder window the file is back. DOH
Also if i do a getInfo on the file it disappears out of the trash only to reappear as soon as i click on another finder window. Opening the file with quick view shows the file name as null.null.null.null.úÉ.
Here is what I have tried so far to resolve this issue:
- Systemshutdown
- Verify on the Main HD with disk utility
- Fixing Permissions
- Dragging the file on the desktop
- Clearing the trash folder on the command line with rm -R * (This throws an error message which is weird.)
Has anyone got any idea what else i could try, this is driving me nuts.
I also have TimeMachine and Fusion running not sure if that may be causing this issue.
I hope someone can help me.
cheers
Marcel
I have already tried the following:

Hi I managed to resolve my problem hope the following is of help.
As the problem occured after a forcefull shutdown it appeards that the Boot Camp partition was not unmounted correctly, this left a corrupt entry within the .Trashes folder on the bootcamp partition.
The corrupt file prevented me from deleting the folder. I natively booted into winxp and used a utility called delinvfile to remove all hidden mac os x folders (those starting with a .)
After that i booted back into leopard and the problem was solved.
I also found that unmounting the boot-camp partition would fix the problem this is what pointed me to the solution. It may be a good test to see if you have the same problem before applying the above fix.
The winxp utitlity can be found here:
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/dldelinv.htm
cheers
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