ya! It works like a charm.<br>I made the immutable file a &#39;.&#39; (hidden) file so that it doesn&#39;t even show up in ROX.<br>Thanks for your help Gilbert.<br>-MQ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca">gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 2009-06-30 10:46, Montana Quiring wrote:<br>
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ohhh... good idea! thanks.<br>
I would still want to empty out the Desktop directory every reboot. I&#39;m wondering if the *rm* command would delete everything but the immutable file or just stop and error out. I&#39;ll have to test.<br>
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&quot;rm -f&quot; should do the trick, since it will ignore errors and continue.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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