From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 06:36:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB0016A4EF for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 06:36:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A4543D45 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 06:36:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from graham.north@telus.net) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [216.232.219.67]) by priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.netESMTP <20050510063653.KOAN10324.priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net@[192.168.0.100]>; Tue, 10 May 2005 00:36:53 -0600 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.308 [266.11.7]); Mon, 09 May 2005 23:36:53 -0700 Message-ID: <42805684.2040103@telus.net> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 23:36:52 -0700 From: Graham North User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Graham North References: <42804AD6.8070807@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <42804AD6.8070807@telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-428056850FCB=======" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: ports backup corrupted windows - addendum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 06:36:54 -0000 --=======AVGMAIL-428056850FCB======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Discovered that ports Japanese has a port called "prn" - this is a "privileged" name in Windows - of course when I tried to blow away the whole ports backup it choked up and left a 97MB file hanging. I will try to find out how to deal with privileged file deletion in Windows via other forums (using command prompt "del" doesn't work). Cheers, Graham/ Graham North wrote: > Okay, I know it sounds daft and I hope that it is not too far out > there.... > Some time ago when loading a new FreeBSD, I decided to back up the > ports collection onto my Windows XP hardrive. > > Today, I decided to blow it away - but it won't go! It moved from C: > drive to the recycle bin, and most got emptied out however some > (97.2MB) is "sticking". No matter that I try to "empty recycle bin" > it gives me a message "cannot remove folder prn: The parameter is > incorrect. > Everyting else in the bin was emptied but now the recycle bin seems > broken when I try to delete other files - it is really weird. Could > some set of Unix file permissions have thrown the Windows box for a loop? > Any ideas will be appreciated. > Thanks, Graham/ > --=======AVGMAIL-428056850FCB======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 5/9/2005 --=======AVGMAIL-428056850FCB=======--