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Win. Or 'whoot', depending on your preference. Your next challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to get the locked file off the desktop. Have tried swapping to desktop and purging but no dice. Nor will it dragged and dropped into Trash or any other folder.

Bev.

On 05/11/13 14:32, Ben Whyall wrote:

How about

open a terminal

cd ~/Desktop sudo rm -rf <name of file>

Ben

Off list (prob by accident) Ben suggested this and it worked. Hoorah. Cheers, Ben. To answer Brett, Gnome. Not that it matters much now.

Bev