[Using LinuxMint-8 with Windows-7 on a laptop with Pentium dual-core 2.2 GHz cpu, 4 GB RAM, 500GB hdd]
Here's the terminal display:
theo@TJTLAP3 ~ $ sudo rm -R /media/OS/Users/theo/My*/Bookselling/Website/New*
rm: cannot remove directory `/media/OS/Users/theo/My Documents/Bookselling/Website/New text 23-3-2010': No such file or directory
But the folder is there, it is empty (I've just emptied it), the path is correct (as shown by the fact that the terminal software has translated both of the * wildcards into the full folder names). Its owner is root but I'm using sudo,
This has happened before with Delete, and then the $ rm -R command worked - not this time.
What next, please?
Yours hopefully, -
Theo Tulley.
Remove: File does not exist
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- T J Tulley
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Re: Remove: File does not exist
Hi,
perhaps try sudo rm -rf /media/OS/Users/theo/My*/Bookselling/Website/New*
or sudo rm -rf /media/OS/Users/theo/My\ Documents/Bookselling/Website/New\ text\ 23-3-2010' (its \ then a space for command line use of spaces)
a word of caution though, always be extremely careful using rm -rf ! or rm -f for that matter.
Cheers,
Deadguy
perhaps try sudo rm -rf /media/OS/Users/theo/My*/Bookselling/Website/New*
or sudo rm -rf /media/OS/Users/theo/My\ Documents/Bookselling/Website/New\ text\ 23-3-2010' (its \ then a space for command line use of spaces)
a word of caution though, always be extremely careful using rm -rf ! or rm -f for that matter.
Cheers,
Deadguy
Re: Remove: File does not exist
What happens if you use the file manager of your system, I assume nautilus and descend into that directory's parent and try to delete the empty one (New*)
--you could also change ownership or start the filemanager with gsksu in order to get root control
Does that work ?
sudo rm -R '/media/OS/Users/theo/My*/Bookselling/Website/New* '
--you could also change ownership or start the filemanager with gsksu in order to get root control
Does that work ?
Just like deadguy, but I prefer quoting than counting backslashes (\), sodeadguy wrote:Hi,
or sudo rm -rf /media/OS/Users/theo/My\ Documents/Bookselling/Website/New\ text\ 23-3-2010' (its \ then a space for command line use of spaces)
sudo rm -R '/media/OS/Users/theo/My*/Bookselling/Website/New* '
Re: Remove: File does not exist
Theo, wondering if this problem is related to your other post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 11#p270811?
[Edit] your original post and add [SOLVED] once your question is resolved.
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“The people are my God” stressing the factor determining man’s destiny lies within man not in anything outside man, and thereby defining man as the dominator and remoulder of the world.
Re: Remove: File does not exist
Hmm that is a possibility......remoulder wrote:Theo, wondering if this problem is related to your other post http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 11#p270811?