I have downloaded some records from my bank that I found out later that they were incompatible with MX23.2 Linux Xfce. I deleted the file but after that it put an infinite amount of these empty files on my desktop. It won't let me delete them and I get this error message that doesn't make any sense. How do I get rid of these empty files? Here is a screen shot of it. https://imgur.com/XVGwFLG

Sounds like a permissions issue.

Check the file properties, particularly the ownership of the files. Your file manager should provide some way to show that, perhaps by right-clicking on a file and selecting an option from the right-click menu, and let us know what you find out.

You could also check the permission via the command line by opening a terminal, navigating to the directory, and running

See man ls for more.

It says I have ownership. It has zero bytes and the first one of the infinite amount of files is called: AncAB4Mf.csv.part

Try this.

Open a terminal, navigate to the directory, and try deleting one of the files as root, and let us know if that works. If you're not sure how to do that (you say you're not familiar with the command line), just ask.

(It's been a while since I used MX and I can't remember whether MX uses sudo or su.)

I don't know how to navigate using the terminal. Besides, I check the file permissions and it says I have ownership. If I try to delete any of the now it will lock up the desktop but everything else works. Only rebooting the computer will unlock the desktop.

What is the name of your file manager?

Later:

What I'm getting at is this: You can open a terminal, become root, then open the file manager from the command line (either with su or sudo [file manager]. Then you can navigate to that directory and try to delete the files from the file manager as root. Then let us know what happens.

I added that because I have to pack it in for the night.

I got the solution here. https://www.linux.org/threads/cant-d...2/#post-221290

The image in your initial post shows all the files with a .part extension which means they were not downloaded. If you download a large file, for example a file of several GB, you can look in the Downloads directory and you will see the name of the file with a .part extension and when the file completes the download, that .part file disappears. The link in your last post suggests downloading in .pdf format rather than .csv if possible. It has nothing to do with compatibility with MX. Your original post isn't clear as you state you downloaded some records and then later say you deleted 'the' file. Probably the simplest 'solution' is suggested in the link you posted, to use .pdf files if possible.