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Can't delete directory on Mac

We have a package called myapp.component and inside it we have a Content directory with the following permissions:

drwxrwxrwx  4 root  wheel  136 Mar 18 15:05 Contents

When I try to delete this directory using

rm -rf Contents

It doesn't work for a reason

rm: Contents/Resources/myapp.rsrc: Permission denied
rm: Contents/Resources: Directory not empty

We have permission to delete the Contents directory, so why is it still not working?

Edit: if I move the package from / Library / Audio / Plug-Ins / Component to ~ / tmp / then it deletes the folder with no problem

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You have permission to delete Contents

, but not Contents/Resources/mypp.rsrc

. If you do ls -l

, you will see some more restrictive permissions.

Anyway, from the administrator account, you can:



sudo rm -rf Contents

and it should work fine.

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The file is probably still open.

You can use the command lsof

to display open files and find out what to use with them:



lsof | grep "myapp\.rsrc"

You will probably talk about a program with an open file.

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