I have a few desktop icons that won't allow me to move them to trash or relocate them on desktop. A PDF, a DOCX and a PART. Not locked under get info or get info command doesn't work. Suggestions?

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ranjiao wrote:I removed /lib64 and make a soft link from /lib64 to /lib, as Matlab09 requires a /lib64 containing crt libs.
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