Applications folder left over from XP vm package

[ozarkcanoer]

I am deleting Fusion 2 from my Mac since I'm giving the machine to someone.  Somehow the Applications folder from my XP virtual machine is left over and contains 4894 files that are each about 230 or so Kbytes and which OS X thinks are applications.  I am having a devil of a time trying to move these files to the Trash to delete them.  It takes forever to move one of these files to the Trash.  What's going on?

[WoodyZ · Accepted solution]

Use the Power of Unix!

In a Terminal use the following syntax:

rm -fdr "Full Path To .vmwarevm/Applications"

It will remove it quickly and doesn't put it in the Trash!

[ozarkcanoer]

OH YEAH !  Thanks WoodyZ.  I kept trying to get rmdir to do it.

[WoodyZ]

I kept trying to get rmdir to do it.

From the BSD General Commands Manual for rmdir, "The rmdir utility removes the directory entry specified by each directory argument, provided it is empty.".