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. On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:56 PM Eric Oyen wrote: > Ok, unmount the drive, then run > Sudo fsck > When completed, remount and then try to remove the files using: > Sudo rm -rf > > -Eric > > > On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Michael wrote: > > this is interesting: I tried accessing 'Neil' from the GUI but get an > error: > 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) > and when I attempt to access it from a tty get: > $ ls Neil/ > ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180604.jpg': Input/output error > ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error > ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180827.jpg': Input/output error > ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180903.jpg': Input/output error > ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180917.jpg': Input/output error > ls: cannot access 'Neil/quote.docx': Input/output error > IMG_20150205_180559.jpg IMG_20150205_180827.jpg quote.docx > IMG_20150205_180604.jpg IMG_20150205_180903.jpg > IMG_20150205_180721.jpg IMG_20150205_180917.jpg > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:44 PM Michael wrote: > >> how do I delete the following files>? >> >> /media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Business/CablingJobs $ >> sudo rm -rf Neil/ >> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180604.jpg': Input/output error >> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error >> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180827.jpg': Input/output error >> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180903.jpg': Input/output error >> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180917.jpg': Input/output error >> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/quote.docx': Input/output error >> >> these are the only files on the drive. >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: