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From: cochrane@spot.Colorado.EDU (COCHRANE JIM T)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Cannot Remove Directories created with MSH
Summary: rmdir problems
Keywords: directory, folders, rmdir, msh
Message-ID: <2715@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 12 Aug 88 08:35:45 GMT
References: <3348@druhi.ATT.COM>
Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: cochrane@spot.Colorado.EDU (COCHRANE JIM T)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <3348@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.UUCP (TerrellE) writes:
>For some reason, the shell included with the Mark Williams C package "msh" has
>a habit of leaving me with empty folders that I cannot remove.
>One folder that I cannot remove has no files in it, but when I try to remove it
>from the desk top, I get an error message something like
>"an item with this name already exists or it is write protected"...  The
>msh command rmdir doesn't work either.

I don't remember that particular error message, but I've occasionally not
been able to remove an empty folder with msh; usually if I cd to inside the
directory and type rm * (even though it generates an error message), the
rmdir command will then work on the directory.

>Another unremovable folder is even more amusing.  If you go inside the folder
>(from the desk top), there is a directory inside the folder, but this
>folder doesn't have a name.  When you enter this directory, there's another
>no-name directory, ad infinitum!  

I don't know about the infinite folder problem; sounds pretty bizarre to
me.  Are you sure your disk is ok?  Does it look the same after you reboot
or coldboot?


cochrane@spot.colorado.EDU