Re: A question of depth
Re: A question of depth
- Subject: Re: A question of depth
- From: Travis Siegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:53:47 -0500
I'm not entirely why rm -R doesn't work, but I've run into this
problem as well. I got around it by using a shell script that did a
cd all the way to the lowest level, rm *, then cd .., and so on until
it got back to the .trash folder, whereupon it exited.
It took me quite a while to figure out what the problem was, because
as you say, there wasn't really a suitable error message explaining
what was going on.
however, the shell script solved the problem nicely, and all was fine
afterwords.
though one time when performing an ftp mirror operation, I got a
similar problem, and the only way to fix it was to mv folders to
successively higher levels in the file structure until I could remove
them normally, since for some reason it was throwing out an error of
some sort about removing the folders that were nested too deep.
Unfortunately, this was a couple years ago and I think it was under
tiger, so not sure if the error still applies, or if it was just that
particular ftp structure. I've not encountered it since, so really
can't say.
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