Unable to remove directory

Markus Schönhaber ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Sat Apr 12 16:57:05 UTC 2008


JosephK wrote:

> I have been moving my mp3s to a new drive and am stuck with a directory
> that I can't delete. If I use rm it tells me the file is a directory but
> if I use rmdir or rm -f -r I get the message that the file or directory
> does not exist. Below is a partial list of an ls
> 
> jmasters at spookie1:~$ ls -al /mnt/music/mp3s/B*
> /mnt/music/mp3s/Bj_rk:
> total 0
[...]
> As you can see it is the Bj_rk entry that is the problem. Seems to have
> been renamed from Bjork, probably by EasyTag
> 
> Any ideas how I can get rid of this?

Did you try
rmdir /mnt/music/mp3s/Bj*
?

Regards
  mks






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