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Big bang widget, how to delete on a Mac?

Charles Clark
asked this on Jul-28 2010 17:18

A Mac user asked me to help delete a desktop icon which she is unable to delete. If I cannot delete from the Accounts system preferences, I am sure Terminals 'rm' command will nuke it.
 

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Aaron Fothergill
Freeverse Support

I take it you've tried simply dragging it to the trash like normal?

Jul-28 2010 19:33.
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Charles Clark

User reported 'move to Trash' failed. If there is nothing malicious in this widget, I am sure I can remove it ;-)  Pending home visit if needed.

Jul-28 2010 21:06.
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Aaron Fothergill
Freeverse Support
It's more than likely the file's permissions have been zapped so it's not deletable by that user account. Get info and changing permissions by the admin user account should fix it if that's the case and it might be worth using repair permissions from the disk utility in case it's something that's happened to more than 1 file.
Jul-29 2010 06:12.
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Paul I.
Freeverse

Hi Charles,

Have you tried deleting it from the following location:

Macintosh HD/Library/Widgets

Aug-25 2011 12:20.
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