Rusty Shackleford Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I have a folder on my hard disk which has a whitespace at the end of the folder name for example: "folder_name " (i must have named it this way by accident) The folder does not show up in Finder, but when i cd to the parent directory at the terminal and do an 'ls' i can see it. when i do an 'ls -l' i get a "no such file or directory" error and like wise when i try to move or copy it. Filename auto completion at the terminal also shows that the folder seems to be there but I can't seem to access it. The filesystem type is FAT32, and it is an external drive, so i might try taking it to a windows or linux box and see what happens. does anyone have any suggestions how i may possibly fix this since there a some important files in this folder? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28291-specific-folder-acting-strangely-on-tiger/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 maybe it doesn't work but try to use quotes "directory " it may work still, try to find an app like midnight commander, it's a file manager there should be a ppc version somewhere try to rename the directory Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28291-specific-folder-acting-strangely-on-tiger/#findComment-193674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Shackleford Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 midnight commander can see the directory but it has a time stamp of jan 1st 1970 and size 0 KB and it is unable to read it's contents! i'm gonna see if there are any freeware or trial version utils to recover erased data... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28291-specific-folder-acting-strangely-on-tiger/#findComment-193802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Shackleford Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 thank god for cd backups! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28291-specific-folder-acting-strangely-on-tiger/#findComment-196125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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