Re: Trashcan problem

From	"Andi B." <andi.b@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.ecomstation
Subject	Re: Trashcan problem
Date	2019-03-12 20:03 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Hi Mat,
Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my multiboot eCS/Linux system, a wrongly started Linux program
> almost filled up the eCS JFS startup volume. I just could start eCS,
> started to delete with a filemanager the 1000s of files (all under one
> directory) because several utilities complained about "incorrect file
> name" and other errors, also chkdsk. This took too long, so I used the
> drive object, and delete the object to the trashcan. Now the trashcan
> is unusable. As soon as I click on it, it goes to 100% cpu and stays
> there. The screen says "calculation size" or something similar, on the
> deleted directory.
>
> How can I get rid of this? It is not a regular directory. I have a eCS
> maintenance partition and also Linux to work outside the normal eCS, if
> needed.

Here x:\Trash is a regular directory as well as x:\arbeitsoberfläche\papierkorb. Don't 
know which one is used though. But \Trash is hidden. That doesn't hinder 4os2 or 
LarsenCommander to go into it. I have configured both to show hidden files. I can delete 
files there with both of them. You can also try 'dir /ah'. Guess 'cd Trash' will work with 
standard cmd.exe too.

I my experience I can not delete only files which have names with special characters and 
which are written while I'm running with a different codepage. In this case my only 
solution so far is copying all except the problematic files/directories to another 
partition and reformat. In your case you probably can delete from your Linux partition too.

Greetings, Andreas

>
> Mat Nieuwenhoven
>
>

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