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    How do i delete these files?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Lethal Lottery, Mar 8, 2009.

  1. Lethal Lottery

    Lethal Lottery Notebook Betrayer

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    I recently uninstalled VM fusion. Probably not correctly. Being used to a mac all i did was drag and drop the icon to the trash. Then i realized it still was somewhat on the computer. So i manually deleted it folder off the harddrive. However there are 4 files it cant delete because they are in use , and when i right click on a rar file it still says "extract with winrar - windows xp pro 2- vm ware fusion" It's getting annoying.
     
    Lethal Lottery, Mar 8, 2009
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    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    You could try running the setup.dmg and selecting uninstall from there. Hope this helps.
     
    Luke1708, Mar 9, 2009
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Try restarting your Mac.
     
    Budding, Mar 9, 2009
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    i3urtongirl Notebook Consultant

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    You can force delete the files by opening your trash and press "option" + click on "Empty".
     
    i3urtongirl, Mar 9, 2009
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    Lethal Lottery Notebook Betrayer

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    thanks guys, i just searched "vm" in spotlight and manually deleted the windows install it was taking up like 6 gb!
     
    Lethal Lottery, Mar 9, 2009
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    in VMware or Parallels, even if you go and delete it, you can still go back and open the .dmg that you installed from and run the uninstallers to get rid of everything.
     
    doh123, Mar 9, 2009
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