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How to remove a file which name seems to be "." on an SMB share?
As this is in a SMB mounted drive, the troublesome file needs to be removed in the source system (the server sharing the drive). The file is for sure named strangely for the SMB protocol to render it ...
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How to remove a file which name seems to be "." on an SMB share?
I'm crashing this party. The essential bit of information here seems to be that the following command fails with a permissions error, even though there is no obvious reason why it should:
rm -rf mytmp
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How to remove a file which name seems to be "." on an SMB share?
It is most likely not called . because that is a reserved name. If these are the only three directory entries, try rm -i .* and skip ...
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kdeconnect-indicator not working on macos 14.6.1 macbook pro m3
Investigating crash logs on console, I see
Termination Reason: Namespace TCC, Code 0
This app has crashed because it attempted to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app'...
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How to remove a file which name seems to be "." on an SMB share?
You may be looking at something with UTF-8 encoding - there are more than one dot characters in the world. I'm not an OSX user, but maybve you can do something like this from linux:
# ls -al | od -c
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How to remove a file which name seems to be "." on an SMB share?
Since the only remaining problematic file is a plain file
just enter:
find . -name "*" -type f -exec echo "{}" \; | od -cx
You will see the string of characters before or ...
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