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Re: Cygwin 'rm' leaves hidden 'deleted' directories around


Hi!

Friday, 17 August, 2001 Chad Loder cloder@acm.org wrote:

CL> Hello. When I use rm to remove files under Cygwin, it's
CL> creating a hidden folder in the file's directory called
CL> "deleted" (without the quotes of course). This folder
CL> contains a file called "index", and one or more files
CL> named "deleted.001", "deleted.002", etc.

first, check if you're really using cygwin's 'rm'. use 'cygcheck rm'
to find out. your path contains a lot of directories before /bin, so
maybe you're using, rm from java, or from /p/Bin/

CL> I can remove the hidden directory from DOS (using rmdir);
CL> I can remove the hidden directory from Windows Explorer.

CL> Having these folders hanging around is annoying,
CL> especially because rm -rf doesn't get rid of directories!

CL> Does anyone know why this is happening to me? I've been
CL> using Cygwin for years...this only started happening in
CL> the last couple weeks -- the only thing I can think of
CL> is that I changed some of my NTFS permissions around
CL> when I locked down my workstation...however, seeing as
CL> I can remove the files easily from DOS and Explorer,
CL> I'm stumped...

i've also heard of some "undelete" services for windows which preserve
deleted files, so they can be undeleted later. do you have somthing
like this, by chance?

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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