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Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: hobaku on October 17, 2005, 04:16:35 AM
Well, the problem is that when I was cleaning out my subdirectories, there were two directories I couldn't delete. I tried to delete everything in the folder before actually getting rid of the folder and I also Chmod but to no avail. Everytime I try I get this message:

550 Remove directory operation failed!
Delete of corrupt failed.
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: Xepher on October 17, 2005, 07:56:37 AM
Well, since there's no "hobaku" account, it's gonna help to know what your username actually is, as well as what directories you can't delete.
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: hobaku on October 17, 2005, 08:38:20 PM
Whoops, my username is ink and the undeletable directories are: http://ink.xepher.net/corrupt (http://ink.xepher.net/corrupt) and http://ink.xepher.net/test (http://ink.xepher.net/test)
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: Xepher on October 18, 2005, 04:51:14 AM
I've removed the directories for you, but there was no problem or error with them, they simply still had files in them. Your FTP client is likely braindead, and doesn't look for hidden files. Use something better http://winscp.sourceforge.net
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: Databits on October 18, 2005, 03:49:16 PM
Some FTP clients also don't show you hidden files by default. I find that my best solution has been to SSH in and do a rm -r on the directory that's giving me trouble if I know I really don't need anything in it.

For those who don't know what SSH is, it's pretty much a shell that 's used to communicate with Linux/Unix systems.
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: hobaku on October 21, 2005, 04:10:34 AM
Just wanted to say thanks a lot. It was very helpful! Xepher, I especially like that ftp program, way better than what I used before...
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: Xepher on October 21, 2005, 07:27:23 PM
It's not actually FTP, it's SCP (Secure CoPy.) I'm considering shutting down FTP altogether and requiring SCP use.
Title: Undeletable directories
Post by: Databits on October 23, 2005, 05:43:34 PM
My Unix/Linux instructor at the college basically says he thinks that all linux boxes should just use SSH/SCP instead of bothering with FTP at all. I guess the secure part makes it better. Only case I can think of where FTP sucked was on another instructors server which got hacked into at the college because he had the Anonymous account open and the password was... hmm... anonymous. lol