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Undeletable directories

Started by hobaku, October 17, 2005, 04:16:35 AM

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hobaku

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.

Xepher

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.

hobaku

Whoops, my username is ink and the undeletable directories are: http://ink.xepher.net/corrupt and http://ink.xepher.net/test

Xepher

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

Databits

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.
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hobaku

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...

Xepher

It's not actually FTP, it's SCP (Secure CoPy.) I'm considering shutting down FTP altogether and requiring SCP use.

Databits

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
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