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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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.

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