Getting Rid of Files in All My Files

i don't know how to this: In All My Files under PDF Documents, I have about 482 pdf documents I don't want to keep. Example..a zillion used Groupon Coupons. Is there a way to get rid of these documents, with out having to highlight each one and dragging 10 at a time into the trash? Thanks for any help

I've chosen not to show all my files as I find that superfluous; however, I believe that is only a list of the files, not the files themselves. I think you will need to find the files in their actual location/folder.

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My 2nd generation Nano indicates that about half the space is 'other'. Anyone know what that means and how I get rid of it? All I've ever downloaded is music.

gomeznoles wrote:
My 2nd generation Nano indicates that about half the space is 'other'. Anyone know what that means and how I get rid of it? All I've ever downloaded is music.
The Other data on your iPod is album art, file allocation structures, your main library file, and any other data that the iPod uses to read its songs.
You can have it removed by going to your itunes and plugging your ipod back into it. Click the device then click the music tab then uncheck box that says include album artwork.. then sync again.. this time the OTHER stuff will now be removed.

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Katrina...
Try the links posted by Old Toad here > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3122008

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Getting rid of the buy all button forces me to shop elsewhere!

This is not Apple here.
We are users. We don't get rid of anything.
If you wish to let Apple know about this use http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
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ls -lod yourfile
If it says schg, then you have to reboot into single
user's mode (hold down command-s while the machine
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Thanks for the specific instructions! I did that and here's what happened.
The first fsck said everything was fine. The chflags was ok as well. I tried to chown both directories then, to see what was there, and the first time it failed with a "operation not allowed" error. I then did rm -R on one of the directories, and it disappeared. I then tried the chown again on the other one, and it worked! Weird. Maybe there's some latency here somehow. Anyway, I decided I wanted the whole thing gone and I did an rm -Rf on it, and it deleted almost everything, except for one file, which was a link to a nonexistent file (it had an ls -l of "lrwxrwxrwx" (is that a hard link?). When I try to delete that one, it says "no such file or directory". I thought rm was supposed to delete the link, not the file the link is pointing to! Anyway, I couldn't think of any way to get rid of it - it just won't let me do it. Anyone have any ideas how to get rid of this link? It's sitting at the bottom of a long tree of directories and I'd now like the whole thing gone... Oh and then I fsck'd again, which said no error, and I rebooted. Finder won't let me delete it either (error 43, file cannot be found). What do you think?
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Yeah, agree that I'd like options on these things, but the OS is aimed at iPhone 7 remote control users, not computer users anymore.
Anyway, to rid Top Sites & the annoying accumulation of stuff it stores, see this page...
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6126_102-399559/disabling-safari-s-top-site-feature/
I
t chews up disk space too!
by Mr. Gregg - 7/11/10 4:25 PM
In Reply to: Disabling Safari's Top Site feature? by ergo2
To completely disable Top Sites, go to Safari > Preferences > General
New windows open with: Top Sites
Change it to something else. Obviously, you can do the same for New Tabs.
(You'll also see Top Sites in the Show All Bookmarks window. Drag that up, don't stop when it first stops moving. It will be reduced to a thin bar.)
Now delete the Image Cache. Choose Safari > Reset Safari... and select Remove All Webpage Preview Images. Click Reset. Now go to YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and select the Webpage Previews folder. Press Cmd-I and click Locked. Now it won't accumulate a jpeg and png of every web page you visit. I saved over 500MB of disk space!
Or WZZZ's post here...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2041659?start=0&tstart=0
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Hi JS. I have tried 'Secure Empty Trash', but it doesn't seem to work. The 'doesn't seem' might sound indecisive, but here's what happens:
A small window with the blue Aqua progress bar appears, as if there were a large amount to delete. It mentions 'Items to delete: 5', then after a short pause the window closes. I haven't seen 5 items in the Trash so far when confronted with this problem, only the one. The Trash itself still displays as 'Trash full'. It still has only the one item in it.
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