[Big-C]

Starting today, I dragged an item to my trash and I get a dialog box that says:

"The item "Untitled Folder" will be deleted immediately. Are you sure you want to continue?"

This happens with whatever I put in there!

I ran Disk Utility, it fixed some permissions, but still no joy.

I've gone down to unix, and permissions all look okay. The trash has some stuff in it initially, so I "rm"'d it. Still, I can't seem to use the trash correctly.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!

-Chris

[fulmer]

are they files from an external drive or drive you've mounted over the network? often the OS likes to delete those immediately.

[booboo]

Originally posted by Big-C:
Starting today, I dragged an item to my trash and I get a dialog box that says:


-Chris

Have you run out of disk space?

[mrtew]

I bet you were dragging something from your iDisk to the trash. That's when I always get that message.

[DoctorW]

I once had the same problem on the internal drive of my iBook, with one of the accounts. All the other accounts were OK.

I thought it may have been that the .Trash directory was blooey, I tried deleting and recreating it with the Terminal, as root, admin, and the user. None of them worked. I tried changing the permissions. It would then work fine, until the next time I logged in.

Eventually, I just got sick of it, deleted the user account, and started over again. It worked fine after that.

[Big-C]

Funny - that's what I did this morning.

This is my work computer, so I didn't have time to mess around too much to figure it out. What I tried was:

-Reboot
-Not mount anything
-Create a new folder/file on my desktop & try to delete it. (gave the above error each time, regardless of the file).
-Went in as root, inspected file permissions; tried a few things, but nothing fixed the problem.
-Ran Disk Utility on it to fix permissions. Nothing worked.

So, I just backed up all my stuff to Shared, deleted the account and recreated it with the same username. Moved all my stuff back to appropriate locations and everything's working fine.

I wonder if there is something that controls the trash in the LDAP, but I don't know how to edit the LDAP database, or if I'm right in thinking to look there...

Anyway, thanks to all for their suggestions.