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After an OS update you sometimes discover left-overs on your desktop, often named (Previously) Relocated Items. In my current case this was just an alias to X11R6 nested in several folders: /Previously Relocated Items/Security/usr.

I moved the folders and the contained forward to the trash but couldn't empty it: "X11R6 can't be modified or deleted". Annoying, why would you protect a simple forward in such a way? This is what ls tells me about the file: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8B 13 Mar 2020 X11R6@ -> /opt/X11.

Next, I try with Terminal but that also fails. sudo rm -f is rejected with "Operation not permitted".

What to do?

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    what if you hold OPTION while emptying the trash?
    – Steve Chambers
    Commented May 25, 2022 at 14:39
  • No effect. I saw that suggested on advice pages but it doesn't work here. Apparently, the file settings are even more restrictive, overly so, I would say, than for other undeletable files.
    – SeanJ
    Commented May 25, 2022 at 15:09
  • Please see if this works for you: discussions.apple.com/thread/…
    – Kaj Hejer
    Commented Dec 20, 2022 at 19:43

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