Re: how to remove ? directory
> From: Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>
> To: Debian Lists <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:52
> Subject: Re: how to remove ? directory
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
>>
>> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
>>
>> a# rm -rf .gvfs
>> rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory
>>
>>
>> any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I
>> tried to mount the iphone.
>>
>> Thanks ahead for your advice,
>>
>> Best regards,
>
> I suppose you tried rmdir and was told the directory was not empty.
>
> But why all the '?' where things like permissions and access dates and
> such should be? I don't think it's either a directory or a file. Where
> is it and how did it get there?
>
Do you have execute permissions on the parent directory? If not try granting them and trying again.
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