Subject: RE: colon got in file name -> can't delete!
From: Glen Coakley <[email-masked]>
To: "'Andrew Petchonoff'" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: Dario Alcocer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:04:31 -0500

If the name you created was "c:asdf" then next time try:
	rm "c?asdf"

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Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer
MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Petchonoff [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:07 AM
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: Dario Alcocer
> Subject: Re: colon got in file name -> can't delete!
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> The problem is: Windows does not allow colons
> in filenames. However, colons can be stored
> on disk itself. And somehow cygwin managed
> to write colon in filename to disk.
> 
> The only way to delete the file was
> to run ntfsdos utility (available from
> sysinternals.com) from DOS to access
> the NTFS volume and delete the stupid file.
> Thanks everyone for your responses.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew
> 
> --- Dario Alcocer <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Petchonov
> > <[email-masked]> writes:
> > 
> >     Andrew> Hello , Description of the problem: A
> > file with colon in
> >     Andrew> the name was created successfully from
> > cygwin, I can't
> >     Andrew> delete it neither from cygwin nor from
> > NT.  If you know
> >     Andrew> how to delete it please drop me a line.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this would work, but maybe you could
> > try:
> > 
> >     $ rm .cachedmetrics.?0.0
> > 
> > This way, you don't reference the problematic colon
> > directly.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix
> > Digital Inc.
> > [email-masked] --
> http://www.helixdigital.com
> 
> 
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