Re: Removing corrupted directory


"Hans Aberg" <haberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <11n1qcg3p81tc44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "G.T."
> <getnews1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Take a look at this:
> >
> > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020920055805577
>
> All file attribute bits are 0. In addition, I can toggle the bits with
> /Developer/Tools/SetFile
> and check them with
> /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo
> (see 'man GetFileInfo' and 'man SetFile'). So it is not any of these bits
> causing the problem.
>
> > Also, I'm not sure if rmdir behaves any differently than rm -r but have
you
> > tried it?
>
> The command rmdir is just a safety command, only removing empty
> directories. Since the UNIX system thinks the directory is non-empty, it
> does not work:
> $ rmdir -p de00d4.54e
> rmdir: de00d4.54e: Directory not empty
>
> It is really stuck there.

And you mentioned previously that the directory appears to be empty for all
intents and purposes.

I know it's probably not going to help but how about "ls -i" in the
directory?

Greg



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