Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!boulder!spot!cochrane 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 Lines: 23 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