Cannot delete file with lock on icon - Error: File or Direcotry Does not Exist

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dustin Isom wrote:
> I was using Limewire to download files to my desktop,
> but it was using to much bandwidth so I closed it. I
> moved all other files successfully, but one file has a
> lock on its icon. I tried to delete it by right
> clicking on the icon with the lock on it then clicking
> delete and by typing in a konsole "rm -f

In this context, "-f" will not force anything.  It just turns off Bash 
asking for confirmation.

> file.extension". Either way I am told that the file or
> directory does not exist. Other things I have tried
> are actually making the file via kate (which makes the
> lock go away) then deleting the file.  It allows the
> file to be made and deleted but about five seconds
> later, the file with the lock on the icon is
> regenerated.

Actually, the file does NOT go away, it is just that it takes 
Konqueror/KFM that long to realize that it is still there.

> Any suggestions?
> 
Open a Konsole and do it as root.

or:

su -c"chmod 666 file.extension"

and then delete it.

--
JRT

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