Dan
I have never found a way, and I don't want to (immediately delete).
However, if I am on a network, deleting files on a server happens
immediately (after a warning).
With USB storage devices you have to allow time for the Finder to
update the directory; they are generally slow, unless you have an all-
USB2 system, and the Finder will not carry out operations until the
device and its contents have mounted properly. If you open a folder
you have to wait for the contents to appear before carrying out an
operation on them. That's obvious, I know, but the device will
operate slowly so you have to give it time. It will also take time
if it is using a strange format. My latest CF card, a 4Gb one which
I use in my E-1 is giving me problems like this. I wonder if the E-1
is formatting it properly ...
All the other problems are foreign to me, I'm afraid.
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 3 Apr 2007, at 02:00, Dan Mitchell wrote:
> I've been trying to use a Mac to move some files around, nothing
> complex, but I'm hitting behaviours that I don't expect -- they're
> sufficiently generic problems that googling gets me a gazillion hits,
> none of which look like what I want, so I thought I'd ask here.
>
>
> 1. Using Finder, is there any way to delete a file without sending
> it to
> the trash can that doesn't involve using 'rm' from a command
> window? The
> same thing that shift+delete does on Windows, basically.
>
> http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2007-03/
> getting_immediate_delete_functionality
>
> thinks there isn't, but I thought I'd check.
>
> 2. General OS question -- how do I convince the 'force quit' list to
> update properly? If I'm using (say) VLC to play a video, and VLC locks
> up in such a way that 'force quit' doesn't work, then I can use 'kill
> -9' to kill it, but 'force quit's list still has VLC in there.
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