On Thursday 26 November 2009 13:04:52, John Bennett wrote:
An external disk had a bit of a prob when copying data to it, and I now have a bunch of corrupted files on it: -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072311.jpg -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072312.jpg -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072313.jpg -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072314.jpg
john@boss:/media/disk/data/draw/camera/misc> ls -la pb0723* ls: cannot access pb072302.jpg: Input/output error ls: cannot access pb072303.jpg: Input/output error ls: cannot access pb072304.jpg: Input/output error ls: cannot access pb072305.jpg: Input/output error
Is there any way to delete these? Thanks, John.
I had a similar problem with some files that I copied from a very old Win98- backup. In dolphin I could not rename nor delete them. However in a root console I could still use the rm command with wildcards, i.e. cd to-the-directory-containing the files rm pb07231*.jpg *Be careful with the rm command* and doubleckeck that the wildcard you are using will not include files you want to keep! hth Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org