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Undeletable files (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TomMasz@lemmy.world to c/macos@lemmy.world

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I've got a couple of files (empty directories) in the Trash I can't delete. I own them, the mode is 777 and whether I use Empty Trash or use rm from the command line (with sudo or running as root) I get "Permission denied". I tried booting into recovery mode and setting csrutil to disabled but that did nothing. Any ideas? It's not the end of the world but every time I empty the trash I have to deal with the dialog box about not being able to delete them.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did that, as mentioned in the question.

[–] rammjet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You said you disabled SIP in Recovery. You did not say you actually tried to delete from Recovery.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did indeed try deleting them from Recovery with no success.

[–] rammjet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Try: sudo chflags nochg the_file

Then try to delete the_file

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The command should be nouchg and it didn't do anything.