12-22-2016
I just spent some more time researching this on the web (as you do!).
Your original post mentioned that this started when you had an external drive connected. Well it seems to me, and I'm not an OSX user, (and I'm fed up with saying that) that OSX differentiates between local and external drives. Meaning it doesn't accept weird filenames on local drives but expects them on external drives.
I found this statement/solution on a web forum, it's probably copyright content so I'll acknowledge that right now.
"I had a similar issue once and I just connected a FireWire cable between my two Macs that are near by and then started the one Mac [that had the stubborn file] in Target Disk Mode then when it mounted on the other Mac I went to the location trashed the file, emptied the trash, dismounted the Mac in Target Disk Mode unplugged and restarted it normally and *poof* the file was gone forever."
So what do all you OSX users think?
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