<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">wow.<div class="">It sounded like you had some really nasty issues with that filesystem. It’s didn’t want to unmount, fsck wouldn’t behave and rm couldn’t delete files. Yep, that’s a hard core FUBARED filesystem alright.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well, you got the problem resolved. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Btw, sometimes I encounter stubborn files like this. It usually turns out to be a permissions issue. The only problem then becomes resetting the perms (as they sometimes won’t stick).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Usually though, if an FS shows corruption, using fsck should solve it (unless there is some kind of bug that is causing read/write operations to fail.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 22, 2018, at 8:49 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I ran fsck. It just returned through. So then I reformatted it with gparted. So all is well (I guess). I did have to restart the computer after the reformat though (don't remember why) but everything seemed okay. Oh yeaaaaa! I think I had to restart it because it would not unmount and I figured I would try to restart it and if it would gracefully do so it would be good. And it did and upon restart the drive auto mounted.<div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:56 PM Eric Oyen <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com" class="">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Ok, unmount the drive, then run<div class="">Sudo fsck <your device here></div><div class="">When completed, remount and then try to remove the files using:</div><div class="">Sudo rm -rf <name of files here></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_6129544956756942366Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:AppleSymbols;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">this is interesting: I tried accessing 'Neil' from the GUI but get an error: </div><div dir="ltr" class="">Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Neil": Error when getting information for file '/media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Business/CablingJobs/Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error) </div><div dir="ltr" class="">and when I attempt to access it from a tty get:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""> $ ls Neil/</div><div dir="ltr" class="">ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180604.jpg': Input/output error</div><div dir="ltr" class="">ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error</div><div dir="ltr" class="">ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180827.jpg': Input/output error</div><div dir="ltr" class="">ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180903.jpg': Input/output error</div><div dir="ltr" class="">ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180917.jpg': Input/output error</div><div dir="ltr" class="">ls: cannot access 'Neil/quote.docx': Input/output error</div><div dir="ltr" class="">IMG_20150205_180559.jpg IMG_20150205_180827.jpg quote.docx</div><div dir="ltr" class="">IMG_20150205_180604.jpg IMG_20150205_180903.jpg</div><div dir="ltr" class="">IMG_20150205_180721.jpg IMG_20150205_180917.jpg</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br style="font-family:AppleSymbols;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:AppleSymbols;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:44 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">how do I delete the following files>?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""> /media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Business/CablingJobs $ sudo rm -rf Neil/</div><div class="">rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180604.jpg': Input/output error</div><div class="">rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error</div><div class="">rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180827.jpg': Input/output error</div><div class="">rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180903.jpg': Input/output error</div><div class="">rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180917.jpg': Input/output error</div><div class="">rm: cannot remove 'Neil/quote.docx': Input/output error</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">these are the only files on the drive.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>--<span class="m_6129544956756942366Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="m_6129544956756942366m_-245391772868352437gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all" 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