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Over the past two days I keep finding a file called "␀␀␀õ␀␀.␀␀" in the Trash and if I do a Get Info on it it usually disappears. The next time I open the Trash it re-appears however.
If I empty the Trash without listing the contents first, it will again disappear but then the next time I open the Trash it re-appears again. This is really frustrating because the Trash always seems to have stuff that needs to be deleted.
I've used Terminal to look at the .Trash folder in my profile and done a ls -la to see all files including hidden files and there's nothing showing in the folder listing. However this **** file in he Finder keeps appearing.
I've also done a verify and repair of disk permissions and done a verify disk in Disk Utility. No problems were listed with either check.
Any ideas as to get rid of it?
Regards,
Jason

If you do an "ls on .Trash" you won't find it. If you do a "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash", it's still there...
That's because it is, in fact, not there. It's on another volume. Are you running windows?
See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1369798&tstart=0
-mj
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