Moving on from my top tip number 1 Deleting stubborn files from Mac OS X I have added this tip, not one of my top 10 but it is a good one.

So you have a large folder that is full of files that are no longer required. Having to wait while your Mac deletes 10 gigs worth of data is not going to be time well spent. Luckily for you there is Terminal (Applications/Utilities/)

Open up Terminal and depending on the folder you are wanting to delete you may need top login as the machines root user.

sudo su -

When prompted, enter your password. You are logging in as the root user to your machine so from this point you must be very careful!!!

Navigate to the directory that is housing the directory to be deleted. A good tip here is to list the contents to ensure your folder is there. I always use

ls -la

as it list the contents nicely with ownership of each directory shown.

Now to remove the folder type rmdir -r name_of _directory

Enter this command in to terminal and substitute name_of _directory with the name of your directory.

Don’t forget that when typing file names or folders you can type a first few unique characters of the name and press the Tab key.

Thanks Steve