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Hickd8, Noted. And thanks again for your posts.

hicksd8, Yes, progress. I really don't know anything under the hood for OS X, being allergic to UNIX :-). However, I did discover that I can drag the folder containing the offending file out of the...

Hicksd8, Brilliant! Using a second Mac (running Mavericks) worked to delete the copy of the offending file I had on the desktop. But.... I can't see the trash in the mounted remote Mac. I can't drag...

DN2, good luck!!!

regards, David

DukeNuke2, Here's the result of what you suggested.


djCUDA:ee macuser$ ls *T* | od -bc
0000000 342 220 200 111 116 111 124 120 151 143 153 145 162 040 062 056
␀ ** ** I N ...

DukeNuke2,

Again, no luck:


djCUDA:ee macuser$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -inum 3774747 -delete
find: -delete: unlink(./␀INITPicker 2.0): Invalid argument


I know essentially nothing...

RudiC, I did try the node suggestion, but again it did not work.

I got:


djCUDA:ee macuser$ find . -inum 3774747 -exec rm {} \;
rm: ./␀INITPicker 2.0: Invalid argument


That stubborn NUL...

Gull,

Thanks for your suggestion. See the result:


djCUDA:ee macuser$ find . -inum 3774747 -exec rm {} \;
rm: ./␀INITPicker 2.0: Invalid argument


Once again, it seems UNIX doesn't like...

I did try safe boot, to no avail. Thanks.

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[QUOTE=hicksd8;302988007]Hi,

Thanks for the info. I...

DukeNuke2, first of all, many thanks for taking the time to respond to my squawk.

Here's a record of my trial:

in the trash, folder xx, inside that folder ee, inside that ~InitPicker 2.0.
...

Yes, I re-booted. Still no luck.

I use a Mac running OSX El Capitan = UNIX user the hood. After rearranging files on an external hard drive, I ended up with a folder in the trash containing a file called "~INITPicker 2.0". I cannot...