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ford prefect

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Registered: 2010-07-08

Posts: 43

[solved]how to remove broken folder

Hi there,
I dont know exactly if this is the right place to post but i'll give it a try.
in my home folder i find a folder named "_Oo`^,^Bwz^C^_;IPX@{^YCݪuntc\EJ^L)4y^GR+^D^X-_<o^_z"
thats quite annoying, so i tried to remove it. deleting it in dolphin it says »folder does not exist«, via ls i also find this folder, but either copying the displayed filename or trying to tab it does not succeed to delete that folder.
is also tryed fsck checking my home partition, but it says »clean«.

how the problem occurred: i am not sure, but i think it is some binary rubbish i got when i was experimenting with rpm2cpio missleading the output.

so long and thanks for all…

Last edited by ford prefect (2010-07-10 08:39:27)

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: [solved]how to remove broken folder

" rm -rf folder"from a terminal

(be careful when using -rf )

Last edited by flamelab (2010-07-10 07:53:20)

ford prefect

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Registered: 2010-07-08

Posts: 43

Re: [solved]how to remove broken folder

ok, i tried that several times before posting, but that didnt help (as i wrote, there is no way to get terminal display the folder name…)
so?

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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: [solved]how to remove broken folder

if no other file ends in "z", try "rm -rf *z"
i run into similar issues when some files have either invalid unicode or some other type of encoding that cant be read, and usually finding a letter that matches works, as long as it's not too similar to other files.  usually i end up moving other things out of the way first and then doing rm -rf *, but in your case it's in the home folder

[edit] i'm sure there's a better/more correct/l33+ way to do it

Last edited by toxygen (2010-07-10 08:33:22)

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ford prefect

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Registered: 2010-07-08

Posts: 43

Re: [solved]how to remove broken folder

great idea. i think, thats kid a l337 way to do it, but anyways, it solves my problem.
thanks a lot…

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