site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I'm not entirely why rm -R doesn't work, but I've run into this problem as well. I got around it by using a shell script that did a cd all the way to the lowest level, rm *, then cd .., and so on until it got back to the .trash folder, whereupon it exited. It took me quite a while to figure out what the problem was, because as you say, there wasn't really a suitable error message explaining what was going on. however, the shell script solved the problem nicely, and all was fine afterwords. though one time when performing an ftp mirror operation, I got a similar problem, and the only way to fix it was to mv folders to successively higher levels in the file structure until I could remove them normally, since for some reason it was throwing out an error of some sort about removing the folders that were nested too deep. Unfortunately, this was a couple years ago and I think it was under tiger, so not sure if the error still applies, or if it was just that particular ftp structure. I've not encountered it since, so really can't say. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com