I'm trying to delete a movie and it says...operation can't be completed because the item " ".m4v is un use. I've shut down the computer, closed out of everything etc. I don't know what else to do?
I'm trying to delete a video to free up space on my mac. I've moved it to trash and when I try to empty the trash it keeps coming up with...."The operation cannot be completed because the item " ......... .m4v is in use". I'm not exactly computer literate - I don't even know what the m4v is, but I've read some discussions saying to shut down the computer - which I did - nothing everything else I've found on the m4v is too technical for me to grasp. Can anyone help me?
Sorry, didn't notice that you cd'd into that directory. Can't explain why you can't delete it, but I don't do server or NAS stuff. You might want to repost to the Unix forum.
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Hi Apple community!
I have a [rather worrying] problem.
When I try to copy all my files from my documents on my mac [or the entire documents folder] into an external drive, I get this error message
" The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “.DS_Store” already exists. "
I am not given an option to skip this file or anything else.
But I simply cannot complete the operation!
I have tried deleting a few of the .ds_store files, [both in the original and in the destinations]
but no success.
The same thing keeps happening.
At first, this was just happening when I was trying to backup to my dropbox folder [the one on my mac's harddrive, which gets synced to the cloud],
but then I tried to back up my documents to my external hard drive, and I realized it is giving me the same error message.
So effectively, it seems I cannot backup my files anywhere!
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, or by corruption of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled on some models, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
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The following error comes up when I try to install the updated Firefox:
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When I follow the instructions in the error message, it shows that my user name has read and write access. There are a couple other items that are read only. I tried to change this to read and write, but the Sharing and Permissions options are greyed out and will not let me change them. What is the work around for this? I would really like to install the new firefox.
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Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a ''Clean reinstall''. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:
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#Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
#After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
#Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default('''This will NOT delete profile info such as bookmarks and history'''):
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#**C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
#*'''Mac:''' Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
#*'''Linux:''' If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see [[Installing Firefox on Linux]]. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the [http://www.mozilla.org/firefox#desktop Firefox download page], simply remove the folder ''firefox'' in your home directory.
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Wed May 28 11:00:26 2014
Machine-check capabilities: 0x0000000000000c09
family: 6 model: 42 stepping: 7 microcode: 40
signature: 0x206a7
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2635QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
9 error-reporting banks
panic(cpu 5 caller 0xffffff80028dc6b9): "Machine Check at 0xffffff7f842bcb29, registers:\n" "CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000108100000, CR3: 0x00000000056a1000, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0\n" "RAX: 0x0000000000000031, RBX: 0xffffff8014bda000, RCX: 0x0000000000000001, RDX: 0x0000000000000000\n" "RSP: 0xffffff80f33bbd40, RBP: 0xffffff80f33bbd70, RSI: 0x0000000000000007, RDI: 0xffffff8014dc8100\n" "R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000007, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x0000000000000200\n" "R12: 0xffffff8014d093c0, R13: 0x0000000000000007, R14: 0xffffff7f842d1e20, R15: 0x00000000000008f8\n" "RFL: 0x0000000000000046, RIP: 0xffffff7f842bcb29, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010\n" "Error code: 0x0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.90.20/osfmk/i386/trap_native.c: 168
Backtrace (CPU 5), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80eb46de80 : 0xffffff8002822fa9
0xffffff80eb46df00 : 0xffffff80028dc6b9
0xffffff80eb46e060 : 0xffffff80028f3bcf
0xffffff80f33bbd70 : 0xffffff7f842ad663
0xffffff80f33bbe70 : 0xffffff7f842ac899
0xffffff80f33bbf30 : 0xffffff80028dd6ec
0xffffff80f33bbf50 : 0xffffff80028375ba
0xffffff80f33bbf90 : 0xffffff8002837908
0xffffff80f33bbfb0 : 0xffffff80028d6ff7
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement(216.0)[70947979-EA9B-39D1-AD15-CD AB19F031AF]@0xffffff7f842aa000->0xffffff7f842d4fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13C64
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 9FEA8EDC-B629-3ED2-A1A3-6521A1885953
Kernel slide: 0x0000000002600000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8002800000
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There's a black and white striped glitch on the left side of my screen on my Macbook Air! Its happened before and has been an easy fix, usually just restart or turn off my computer but don't know what else to do. Is there anything I can try now? I wont be able to make it to the Apple store until tomorow and would prefer if there was something I could do that didnt cost money, my computers very new and I really need help.
Hi and welcome to the community! Since you're new please be sure that you have checked out our Discussion guidelines.
I suggest that you try to repair the phone software using PC Companion..
Before repairing your device you may want to backup your information first. Check out this topic for more information on how to.
How to backup?
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Since installing iCloud, my iPhone 3GS no longer syncs with my Outlook2010 Calendar and Outlook2010 Contacts. I don't know what else to try, short of resetting the iPhone and completely reloading as a new device. Any ideas, anyone?
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I'm trying to delete files from an external disc and it doesn't let me couse this pops up:
The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -1407)
Please what does it mean? I also have a file in the trash of my mac book named something similar to: a'*.'*.'*'.*.
and this cannot be deleted either..
Please let me know what I can do.
I also have many files in the external disc that I need so I cannot do a format..
Thank you.
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KarinHave you tried putting the file from your Drobo, onto your computer, then onto to the external hard drive?
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Workarounds:
1. Restore the OS X that you formerly used to run Word 2004;
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I have an external hard disk of 319.73 GB that I use as back up memory and where I put all the movies and other files that I can't leave on the computer as they occupy too much memory space . One day I was deleting all the previous dated back up to have more space on it , but had to stop the trash for doing it cause it was taking too long and now every time that I try to empty the trash it just says "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8003)" and even if I press CONTINUE it won't empting it . I'm not really pratical with this things and I tried already to find out the solution here and on Google but apparently nobody ever had a similar error code and I don't know what else to do.
I've a MacBook Pro with a Mac OS X 10.6.8 Version.
Thanks again for the help and sorry if I did some english mistakes !
PEACE & LOVEHey donnie90,
It seems like this article might be the best for helping you address this issue:
You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1526
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This is a strange one... I just recently did a complete format/reinstall of Lion because of very poor performance after upgrading.
So I'm on a totally fresh system, no TimeMachine restore or anything. I've installed all my apps from scratch - no prefrence file backups or anything. Everything is fresh.
Yesterday I tried to copy a file from one folder to another and I got the error "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items". Checked file permissions... repaired disk permissions... made sure I was logged in as admin (I only have one account)... everything looks good.
This is now happening when trying to copy any files anywhere on my machine... Very frustrating.
There's a couple strange side-effects I've noticed:
- I can move & copy files just fine in terminal... without sudo...
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Does anybody know what the heck is going on?jsd2 wrote:
Try creating a new admin user account, logging into it, and then creating some new items on the Desktop and elsewhere. Does the same thing happen there?
Ok the strangeness continues!
I created a new "TestAdmin" account, but it doesn't show up in the Users & Groups prefrences sidebar... The /Users/testadmin folder was created, but the account doesn't show up in the prefrences or login window...
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Any advise how to fix my problem?
thanks in advanceWhile you see a single trash can, in reality there are trash folders on each mounted volume. I don't use TM but what you are describing implies that a TM drive is no different with the way trash is treated. So when the TM is unmounted the trash folder on there is gone and thus the trash looks empty. Remount the drive, the trash folder on it now causes the trashcan to look like something is in it.
If TrashIt! could not remove the file, I'm sorry, you will need to use the terminal. We can do this one step at a time so you only have to copy/paste the lines into terminal (except the first time). So launch Terminal (in utilities). You might want to make the window that is shown a bit larger with the grow box since it's pretty small.
This first line is the only exception to the copy/pasting since you have to enter some information.
sudo ls -laR /Volumes/your-TM-volume-name/.Trashes
where your-TM-volume-name is the name of your TM volume. That's the part you have to fill in since I don't know it.
When you hit return the sudo in that command will cause a prompt for your admin password. Enter it and hit return again. Note the password will not be shown as you type it. Post the results so I can tell you what to do next.
Note this ls command is not doing anything but listing the files in the TM's .Trashes folder. Remember I said each drive has it's own trash folder. .Trashes is it.
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