On my external HD, I have a directory in my trash (media/me/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/.Trash-1000/files
) that appears very difficult to delete. Considering my troubleshooting notes below, what else can I try to get it off my HD?
- When I click 'empty trash' from the file browser, any file browser windows related to the drive appear to hang.
- When I try to use
rmdir
to delete the directory, it reports that there is no such file or directory. - When I try to use
sudo
to delete the.Trash-1000
directory, sudo hangs. - I installed
trash-cli
and tried that, too. It also reported that there isNo such file or directory
. - I also installed
secure-delete
and foundsudo srm -rf .Trash-1000
from within/media/me/Seagate Backup Plus Drive
to hang. - Until I try to empty my trash, I seem to be able to use the external HD as normal (it reads and writes).
- The HD is formatted as NTFS.
- Starting at the root of the HD, all files and folders along the path to the problem directory are owned by me (user and group), and have all permissions flags set (
drwxrwxrwx
). - I have used 'safely remove drive' to unmount and re-mount the drive several times, and it doesn't seem to have made any visible difference to the above.
mount -l | grep media
while the external drive is connected and add the terminal-output to your question. This way we can see if your drive is mounted correctly or not.mount -l | grep media
lists the external HD normally.