[Tiresias]

Here's the situation:

I used my 120 GB Porsche LaCie harddisk to transfer a bunch of .avi files from a PC at work to my Mac. They were from a totally legit Korean media website—One that requires you to register and pay money to download music and films. But when I connected my external to my Mac, one of the files is weird as hell: It's invisible except for the file name; it disappears when you click on it, and, therefore, it can't be deleted. When I grab it I can drag it to the trash, but I can't delete it from the external (Nor can it be dropped on to desktop or otherwise moved off the external).

Another weird thing about it is that it disappears, as I said, but when you close the folder and open it again—there the bloody thing is again: A decapitated file name without an icon.

Still another weird thing is it sits wherever it wants to sit—I have my finder set to "Snap to grid" but this file doesn't obey. It sometimes sits out of place (although, it behaved while I took it's photo below).

I smell file corruption.

I've tried de- and reconnecting the harddisk. I've shutdown and logged out. I tried everything.

Can some one please tell me how to delete this annoying file?! Or—failing that—how to reset my LaCie external harddisk.

It has no information other than the creation date. No size, no "kind", nothing.

Here's a screenshot of the file—both as a list and icon:

[Tiresias]

More information:

When the finder is in Columns mode I can alt-click the file and select "Move to trash". However, I get the error message:

THE OPERATION CANNOT BE COMPLETED BECAUSE ONE OR MORE REQUIRED ITEMS CANNOT BE FOUND (ERROR CODE -43)

[edge.it]

hmm if you have th space copy all files onto your main drive and do a format. or use terminal and do a 'sudo" cmd. ** dont ttouch terminal unless you know what your doing. it could be the end of your computer if you do somethign wrong.

[OreoCookie]

Don't cross-post! Closing.