Ok, unmount the drive, then run
Sudo fsck <your device here>
When completed, remount and then try to remove the files using:
Sudo rm -rf <name of files here>

-Eric


On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <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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