Yes, my 3rd and not my final question.
When i open dolphin and go to my flash drive, the files wont delete. When i delete them it keeps coming back. I already checked permissions as well.
I had it in during installation but didn’t install it to there. Is that the issue?
If so how will I delete the folders?
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:36:05 +0000, nick11682 wrote:
> Yes, my 3rd and not my final question.
>
> When i open dolphin and go to my flash drive, the files wont delete.
> When i delete them it keeps coming back. I already checked permissions
> as well.
>
> I had it in during installation but didn’t install it to there. Is that
> the issue?
> If so how will I delete the folders?
Is the flash drive mounted read-only, perhaps?
Jim
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So, if I plug in a USB thumb drive into openSUSE 11.4 64 bit, the Notifier in the Icon Tray pops up and shows the Disk Label of the drive, with a Eject Symbol next to it. If I select on the disk label (called MYLINUXLIVE in my case) I am given the option to **Open with File Manager **and a couple others. If I select the option Open with File Manager, then the file manager Dolphin is started and my thumb drive is mounted at /media/MYLINUXLIVE folder. If I right click on the folder name of MYLINUXLIVE and select properties I see several Tabs of information. If I go to the Permissions Tab I can see that the Owner Can View & Modify Content. If I look at the Owner, it has my name, James and the Group Users. Thus, I should be able to read and write to this Thumb Drive as I desire. I would then to move to the File Names to see if it might be read only. If I go to the General Tab, it tells me the total disk size and the present space used and free space. Based on my descriptions, can you tell me just what you find with your USB Thumb Drive?
Thank You,
I did check the permissions and they are read and write enabled for my user. I tried to move them but to no success
Is this a non Linux file system (like NTFS)? You do not tell!
Do not forget that read write persmission (and users groups) are NOT on any NTFS file system. They are mimiced by the Linux software that interfaces to such a file system. Thus you can not realy change them.
Better first follow jdmcdaniel3’s script and tell us in every step if (exectly) the same things happen on your system and where they differ from what he shows. This will get us an idea from what you are doing/having.
Hi,
Has the flash drive been re-partitioned and reformatted since new?
I have experienced problems with setting flash drive partition type to 0b (W95 FAT32) on drives over 2GB capacity. For those I use partition type 0c (W95 FAT32 LBA) and problems such as you describe don’t occur.
Regards,
Neil Darlow
Are these files personal files or system files? Some flash drives will continuously repopulate system files when you have deleted them. U3 for example will keep reloading its files even though you have deleted them, the only way to get rid of them in many cases is to load to a windows machine (although I believe U3 is available for Linux) and specify that the dive is to be used as ‘just a flash drive’. Then the files will go for good.
Is this actually a live image created as “CD” like de opensuse live ones?
In that case you would a CD drive and would not be able to delete anything.
Or do you have a corrupted file system? as root try a fsck on your flashdrive.