Help - I am unable to delete 2 folders from the trash in Mac OS X Lion
Help - I am unable to delete two folders (one inside the other) and it seems to be playing havoc with my Finder.
Can anyone advise on how I remove these?
Thanks.
Hey Dawg,
check this out...
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/19/force-empty-trash-in-mac-os-x-when-file-is-locked -or-in-use/
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Hope everybody is doing good,Here is m query on delete duplicate data from the intenal table.
I have an internal table which contain data in the following format.
Doc No Comp Cod Vendor Assignment
1500000009 JM11 00000000
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<u><b>Deleting Adjacent Duplicate Entries</b></u>
To delete adjacent duplicate entries use the following statement:
DELETE ADJACENT DUPLICATE ENTRIES FROM <itab>
[COMPARING <f1> <f2> ...
|ALL FIELDS].
The system deletes all adjacent duplicate entries from the internal table <itab>. Entries are
duplicate if they fulfill one of the following compare criteria:
Without the COMPARING addition, the contents of the key fields of the table must be
identical in both lines.
If you use the addition COMPARING <f1> <f2> ... the contents of the specified fields <f1>
<f2> ... must be identical in both lines. You can also specify a field <fi> dynamically as
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executed, it is ignored. You can restrict the search to partial fields by
specifying offset and length.
If you use the addition COMPARING ALL FIELDS the contents of all fields of both lines
must be identical.
You can use this statement to delete all duplicate entries from an internal table if the table is
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Examples
DATA: BEGIN OF LINE,
COL1 TYPE I,
COL2 TYPE I,
END OF LINE.
DATA ITAB LIKE HASHED TABLE OF LINE WITH UNIQUE KEY COL1.
DO 4 TIMES.
LINE-COL1 = SY-INDEX.
LINE-COL2 = SY-INDEX ** 2.
INSERT LINE INTO TABLE ITAB.
ENDDO.
LINE-COL1 = 1.
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WRITE: / LINE-COL1, LINE-COL2.
ENDLOOP.
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2 4
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