need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

hello. i'm using the n900. i downloaded a file into MyDocs/Downloads and after unziping it i found desktop.ini files in some of the folders. when i came to delete the folders and the contents, i was told that i couldn't delete because they are read only. if anyone knows how to delete these, could you please give me a step by step guide please because i've only had the phone for a week. thanks.

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

Connect the N900 to your desktop machine in mass storage mode and then try to delete the folders. I don't know your OS, but you probably have to go into the folder properties at first and disable "read only".
This might be the easiest way without using xterm.

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

hi matze, thanks for the quick response. i havn't got a pc. if you could give me a run through on how to do it in xterm, that'd be great.
thanks

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

As with running any terminal commands you should fully understand what you are doing before preceding.

open xterm and type:
The first line will change directories into the extracted folder directory.
The second line will search all subdirectories for desktop.ini and then ask you if you want to delete it.

That should work. If you have any issues report back.

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

$ ~ $ cd MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q/Mazda [Mx5]
-sh: /home/user: Permission denied
~ $

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

type:
cd MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q/Maz
and then press the Tab button on the touch screen to autocomplete the folder name, and then press enter to actually execute the command.

edit:
actually you could just type
cd MyDocs/Downloads/Folder

The code in my previous post will look in ALL subdirectories of "Folder" so its really not necessary to go any deeper.

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

~ $ cd MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q
~/MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q $ for i in `find . | grep desktop.ini`; do rm -i "$i"; done
~/MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q $


nothing happened

i had to type all the folder names because if i didn't it just didn't find the folder.

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

~ $ cd MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/
~ $ find . -name desktop.ini -exec rm -i {} \;

HTH

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ cd MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q
~/MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q $ find . -name desktop.ini -exec rm -i {} \;
find: unrecognized: -exec
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) multi-call binary

Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION]

~/MyDocs/Downloads/Folder/Q $


still nothing :(

Re: need help to delete 'desktop.ini' files
 

BusyBox :(