please take a look

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hey matez,

   well i don't think i can explain this so please take a look at the image and explain to me that what are these boxes and how can i fix it.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2enx852.jpg

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Hi
Are they local or remote mounted disks? Can you post the output from;


df -k

I would guess it’s an encoding issue from the disk labels.

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Try a different font setting
Eg: liberation sans

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On 03/30/2011 08:06 PM, p4nth3r wrote:
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> [image: http://i52.tinypic.com/2enx852.jpg]

welcome, but your help request is a little light on the info needed to
help you:

  1. what is your operating system, and version…

  2. what is your desktop environment, and version

  3. in what application do you see that listing?

  4. what language is your system?

  5. do you have any file or directory names which use letters or
    symbols not in the language of your system?

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local or remote mounted? (sorry noob here).

here is the ouput of df-k

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 9611492 5457632 3665620 60% /
devtmpfs 1004748 308 1004440 1% /dev
tmpfs 1004960 476 1004484 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8 15813060 329204 14680580 3% /home
/dev/sda1 25587024 10584400 15002624 42% /media/ac
/dev/sda5 60894348 19787076 41107272 33% /media/ad
/dev/sdb1 30724280 20425484 10298796 67% /media/bc
/dev/sdb6 71646992 53191968 18455024 75% /media/be
/dev/sdb5 71681996 47818684 23863312 67% /media/bd
/dev/sdb7 71646992 51017840 20629152 72% /media/bf
/dev/sdb8 71646992 27558480 44088512 39% /media/bg
/dev/sdb9 71646992 48313504 23333488 68% /media/bh
/dev/sdb10 99201072 58313136 40887936 59% /media/bi

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changed font but sorry no luck

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  1. opensuse 11.3 x32
  2. gnome 2.30.0
  3. places > computer.
  4. english
  5. i have a directory under name of a ASCII character(if thats what you are asking) but its in all partitions and i don’t think thats a problem because all others seems fine you see.
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On 03/30/2011 10:06 PM, p4nth3r wrote:
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> 1. opensuse 11.3 x32
> 2. gnome 2.30.0
> 3. places> computer.
> 4. english
> 5. i have a directory under name of a ASCII character(if thats what you
> are asking) but its in all partitions and i don’t think thats a problem
> because all others seems fine you see.

those funny looking symbols is usually what the system will throw up
when it encounters a letter/symbol etc which is not within the
character set of the system…

so, you might have lots and lots of “seems fine” but then you run into
something in chinese, or russian, or or or or or and your system
barfs…

i can guess from your answer to Malcolm that you have loads of media
files…maybe music or movies and maybe some in foreign languages…if
you go though and change all those to ascii only i bet all of those
which are not fine will become so…

i guess from 3. above you are seeing this in Nautilus…or ???

i asked what desktop and application because many of them (not all)
have settings where you can pick the “Character Encoding”…i don’t
use gnome so i have no idea if nautilus has a setting or not, but go
into the Preferences and see if you can find a setting for font, or
language, or character encoding…and, if available try a unicode
encoding…

next time please give more info (did you notice that 3 folks had to
ask questions prior to even trying to answer?)

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