Re: file won't delete

2018-08-30 Thread Kevin Fries
Do an fsck on that drive. Files are stored on disk, then the reference to them is stored in an index (or directory file).  You can see this if those two somehow got out of sync. Kevin ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Aug 30, 2018, 6:07 AM, at 6:07 AM, Michael wrote: >On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:27 AM,

Re: file won't delete

2018-08-30 Thread Michael
could ir be the drive? On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Michael wrote: > The file is on an external drive (a backup drive). When I attempt to open > it instead of librecalc opening libredraw opens with one the pictures I've > taken on the page. > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Michael wrote

Re: file won't delete

2018-08-30 Thread Michael
The file is on an external drive (a backup drive). When I attempt to open it instead of librecalc opening libredraw opens with one the pictures I've taken on the page. On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 8:07 AM, Michael wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:27 AM, Kevin Fries > wrote: > >> Thy deleting

Re: file won't delete

2018-08-30 Thread Michael
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:27 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > Thy deleting from the console, and use tab completion. I would guess you > have a non-rendering character in the filename. Hoping the tab completion > will pick it up. > That is the first thing I tried. bmike1@MikesBeast /media/bmike1/Sea

Re: file won't delete

2018-08-29 Thread Kevin Fries
Thy deleting from the console, and use tab completion.  I would guess you have a non-rendering character in the filename.  Hoping the tab completion will pick it up. If that does not work, you are more likely to get a better error message that will help you figure out what is really wrong. Kev

Re: file won't delete

2018-08-29 Thread Snyder, Alexander J
Restart your file manager. Or log out and login, does it persist? Thanks, Alexander. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 20:56 Michael wrote: > I hilight the file press the delete key and: > > Error while deleting. > There was an error deleting Earnings2018.ods. > Show more d

file won't delete

2018-08-29 Thread Michael
I hilight the file press the delete key and: Error while deleting. There was an error deleting Earnings2018.ods. Show more detail Error removing file: No such file or directory -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxli