Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:28:08 +0400 From: egor duda X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53 RC/4) Reply-To: egor duda Organization: deo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <149333982561.20010817172808@logos-m.ru> To: Chad Loder CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 'rm' leaves hidden 'deleted' directories around In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010817060211.00aab470@pop-server.socal.rr.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010817060211.00aab470@pop-server.socal.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/