file won't delete

[Kevin Fries]

Do an fsck on that drive.

Files are stored on disk, then the reference to them is stored in an index (or directory file).  You can see this if those two somehow got out of sync.

Kevin

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On Aug 30, 2018, 6:07 AM, at 6:07 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:27 AM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Thy deleting from the console, and use tab completion.  I would guess
>you
>> have a non-rendering character in the filename.  Hoping the tab
>completion
>> will pick it up.
>>
>
>That is the first thing I tried.
>
>bmike1 at MikesBeast /media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion
>Drive/Documents/Money/Earnings/DailyEarnings $ rm Earnings2018.ods
>rm: cannot remove 'Earnings2018.ods': No such file or directory
>
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