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Re: Re-occuring folders, even when deleted!



On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 10:53 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I have several folders in my ~/Downloads folder that have been deleted
> with nautilus, and thunar, and dolphin, and xfe, and at the command
> line. But after rebooting they're back again! This has now been going
> on for several months, and I need to put a stop to it, but how? I cant
> find where these are being kept and don't know what else I can do to
> get rid of them. Can anyone suggest a solution please?

That's strange.

If you e.g. run
$ su
# cd /home/YOUR_HOME/Downloads
# ls -hAl A_FOLDER_THAT_SHOULD_BE_DELETED
# rm -rf SAME_FOLDER_THAT_SHOULD_BE_DELETED
# shutdown -r now

and after restart
$ ls -hAl ~/Downloads/THE_FOLDER_THAT_SHOULD_BE_DELETED

is there any strange output?

Regards,
Ralf


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