Dennis Wicks wrote the following on 05/01/2012 06:20 PM:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything
else I have thought of to get rid of it or write over it.
Any ideas how I
Jochen Spieker wrote:
Dan B.:
No. Losing the display order setting is probably the _worst-case_
scenario
The OP showed us an obvious case of file system corruption. He is lucky
if he only lost this index file and no other files. He is *very* lucky
if an fsck can repair the damage and nothing
On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:39:05 -0400, Dan wrote in message
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Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message
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Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
have thought of to get rid
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:39:05 -0400, Dan wrote in message
...
..if Inbox.msf is your email,...
That looks like a Mozilla SeaMonkey or Thunderbird mail _index_ file.
If it is, it can be deleted and SeaMonkey/Thunderbird will re-create
it (from the corresponding mail data
Dan B.:
No. Losing the display order setting is probably the _worst-case_
scenario
The OP showed us an obvious case of file system corruption. He is lucky
if he only lost this index file and no other files. He is *very* lucky
if an fsck can repair the damage and nothing else is corrupted. Or
On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:35:51 -0400, Dan wrote in message
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Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:39:05 -0400, Dan wrote in message
...
..if Inbox.msf is your email,...
That looks like a Mozilla SeaMonkey or Thunderbird mail _index_
file.
If it is,
On Ma, 01 mai 12, 19:15:19, Indulekha wrote:
It's always wise to alias rm to rm -i in your shell.
Also learned the hard way, when the combination of a killer
headache and time pressure caused me to delete a bunch of
things years ago...
I used to think so as well, but consider situations
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Ma, 01 mai 12, 19:15:19, Indulekha wrote:
It's always wise to alias rm to rm -i in your shell.
Also learned the hard way, when the combination of a killer
headache and time pressure caused me to delete a bunch
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message
20120502050455.ga25...@well-adjusted.de:
Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it.
On 20120501_204601, John L. Cunningham wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv,
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message
20120502050455.ga25...@well-adjusted.de:
Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything
else I have thought of to get rid of it or write over it.
Any ideas how I can get this thing out of
Handle this with great care!!
If you can remove it in the gui, do so.
That would be safest.
If you cannot, then look up the man page on rm, and make
sure that the -i flag works.
-i stands for inquire, and should ask you for each file that
it wants to remove whether to remove it or not.
When
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 04:46:19PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
Handle this with great care!!
If you can remove it in the gui, do so.
That would be safest.
If you cannot, then look up the man page on rm, and make
sure that the -i flag works.
-i stands for inquire, and should ask you for
--- On Tue, 5/1/12, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote:
From: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com
Subject: How do I remove a bad file??
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 6:20 PM
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
have thought of to get rid
Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
have thought of to get rid of it or write over it.
Any ideas how I can
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