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Old December 8th 04, 02:51 PM
KevinGPO
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Default HELP: Why WinXP can't delete my files????

I got a problem in WindowsXP. I installed some sourcecode to compile using
Cygwin. Now I cannot seem to be able to remove/delete folders/files using the
"rm -Rf" force command in Cygwin. Here is a detailed listing of the
folder/files:

CompiledLibraries/:
total 0
drwx------+ 3 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 SDL-1.2.7
drwx------+ 3 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 SDL_net-1.2.5

CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7:
total 0
drwx------+ 16 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 src

CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 Kevin ???????? 0 Jun 5 2004 .deps
dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 Kevin ???????? 0 Jun 5 2004 .libs
drwx------+ 25 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 audio
drwx------+ 18 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 cdrom
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 cpuinfo
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 endian
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 events
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 file
drwx------+ 3 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 hermes
drwx------+ 15 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 joystick
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 main
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 thread
drwx------+ 4 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 timer
drwx------+ 34 Kevin ???????? 0 Dec 7 14:08 video

CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/.deps:
total 13
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 1732 Jun 5 2004 SDL.Plo
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 4076 Jun 5 2004 SDL_error.Plo
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 1816 Jun 5 2004 SDL_fatal.Plo
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 91 Jun 5 2004 SDL_getenv.Plo
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 3919 Jun 5 2004 SDL_loadso.Plo

CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/.libs:
total 13595
-r-xr-xr-x 1 Kevin ???????? 2746619 Jun 5 2004 SDL.dll
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 22987 Jun 5 2004 SDL.o
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 378828 Jun 5 2004 SDL_error.o
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 21497 Jun 5 2004 SDL_fatal.o
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 1814 Jun 5 2004 SDL_getenv.o
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 367140 Jun 5 2004 SDL_loadso.o
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 10262308 Jun 5 2004 libSDL.a
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 116176 Jun 5 2004 libSDL.dll.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Kevin ???????? 12 Jun 5 2004 libSDL.la - ../libSDL.la
-r--r--r-- 1 Kevin ???????? 783 Jun 5 2004 libSDL.lai


snipsnip



Here's a sample output from the command "rm -Rf CompiledLibraries/"

': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xv/.d
eps': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xv':
Directory not empty
rm: cannot unlink
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86dga/.deps/
XF86DGA.Plo': Permission denied
rm: cannot unlink
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86dga/.deps/
XF86DGA2.Plo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86
dga/.deps': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86
dga': Directory not empty
rm: cannot unlink
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86vm/.deps/X
F86VMode.Plo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86
vm/.deps': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory
`CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86/Xxf86
vm': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video/XFree86':
Dir
ectory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src/video':
Directory n
ot empty
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7/src': Directory not
emp
ty
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries/SDL-1.2.7': Directory not
empty
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.a':
Permissi
on denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.exp':
Permis
sion denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.la':
Permiss
ion denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.lai':
Permis
sion denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/SDL_net.dll':
Permissio
n denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/SDL_net.dll-base':
Perm
ission denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/SDL_net.dll-def':
Permi
ssion denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/SDL_net.dll-exp':
Permi
ssion denied
rm: cannot unlink
`CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/SDL_net.dll-ltdll.c': P
ermission denied
rm: cannot unlink
`CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/SDL_net.dll-ltdll.o': P
ermission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs':
Directory n
ot empty
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/SDLnet.lo': Permission
denied

rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/SDLnetselect.lo':
Permission
denied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/SDLnetTCP.lo': Permission
den
ied
rm: cannot unlink `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5/SDLnetUDP.lo': Permission
den
ied
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries/SDL_net-1.2.5': Directory not
emp
ty
rm: cannot remove directory `CompiledLibraries': Directory not empty



snipsnip


But the errors says something about cannot unlink file? Something to do with
why the type is ????????? and why there's a + symbol beside every single file
in the attributes (eg. drwxrwxrwx+ filename...)

There's no root mode in Cygwin, and the files were created under
Cygwin/WindowsXP.

I tried :

$ rm -d *
rm: cannot unlink `audio': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `cdrom': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `cpuinfo': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `endian': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `events': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `file': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `hermes': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `joystick': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `main': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `thread': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `timer': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot unlink `video': Operation not permitted

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