Your file is a phantom and there probably is an inconsisyency in your 
drive's directory structure.

You should use Disk First Aid, Disk Warrior or some other directory/disk 
repair program to fix up your disk. After the repair the phantom file 
should either be gone or in a state that enables it to be deleted.

On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 11:37  PM, Bill Kuck wrote:

> Here's a twister.  I have a file named "Stuffit Expander Prefe?ence" 
> in a
> folder named "xxx" sitting on the desktop.  I want to delete the file 
> so I
> drag it to the trash.  I get an alert "... can't move file to trash 
> because
> it cannot be found".  So, I drag the folder to the trash... ok so far, 
> until
> I try to empty the trash.  I get another dialog " .. cannot delete 
> file ...
> because it cannot be found, -127 file system error".  I have tried 
> several
> trash deleting shareware programs along with typical option - empty 
> trash
> keystrokes, etc with no luck.  How do I delete this file?
>
> A little history: I got to this point few days ago by upgrading to 
> System
> 9.2.2.  Had all kinds of problems with that upgrade, so I performed a 
> clean
> install of 9.2.1 back to what I originally had.  After repopulating the 
> "new
> system folder 9.2.1" with ext, ctrl pnls, preferences, etc from my 
> "previous
> system folder, I was left with this file.  Everything works fine now, 
> but I
> cannot get rid of this file @#$%...
>
> Best,
> Bill
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