I used to backup my iPhone to an exterior drive utilizing the directions right here however now that I’m backing as much as my inside laborious drive (the default location) I want to delete the previous backup. I used to be by some means profitable at deleting the info inside the directories, so it now not takes up any house, however I can not seem to delete the listing itself even after a restart of the OS. Disk Utility restore exhibits no issues.
If the listing is within the Trash and I’m going to empty it, it tells me the sub-directories are in use:
If the trail is saved in $listing, whether or not I exploit rm -rf $listing or sudo rm -rf $listing, I get a Permission denied error for every sub-directory:
rm: /Volumes/VOLUME/iPhoneBackup/Backup/00008110-000G309221F0401E/61: Permission denied So far as permissions go, I’m the proprietor of the highest degree listing and every sub-directory…
I also needs to notice that I regarded for uchg (immutable) flags, and though there have been none I used sudo chflags -R nouchg $listing which had no impact. I additionally used sudo chmod -RN $listing to take away ACLs in case there have been any, additionally with no impact.
If I exploit ls -@AOelR $listing to get file flags, ACLs, and prolonged attributes I get this:
drwxr-xr-x 3 username workers - 96 Apr 22 13:41 Backup iPhoneBackup/Backup: complete 0 drwxr-xr-x 258 username workers - 8256 Apr 22 13:18 00008110-000G309221F0401E iPhoneBackup/Backup/00008110-000G309221F0401E: complete 0 drwxr-xr-x 26 username workers - 832 Jan 13 2024 00 drwxr-xr-x 28 username workers - 896 Jan 13 2024 01 ...[same results for each directory] iPhoneBackup/Backup/00008110-000G309221F0401E/00: complete 0 ...[same results for each directory] How do I eliminate this listing?
