can;t delete a file

[skag]

Hi,
Im using Kubuntu 10.04 with KDE 4.4.2.
I just downloaded a file thinking it was an e-book. It was in a zip archive I extracted and tried to open it but okular wrote me a message that it doesnt exist... After that i tried to delete it but i get this message: The file or folder /home/<user>/Desktop/ƪ �׮� - ����� �ծ���.pdf does not exist.


When trying to delete it with sudo rm i get this:
rm: cannot remove `/home/<user>/Desktop/ƪ': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `�\327\256�': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `-': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `�����': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `�ծ���.pdf': No such file or directory


its name is weird but i can't rename it either.... what can i do??? plz help because it's on my desktop :/ thnx

[m4tic]

Restart the computer. You may want to check your disk for errors, boot from the recovery mode

[skag]

tried but did nothing... I think the problem is on the name.. It's in greek and the encoding in utf-8... thats why it cant read it and takes it as deleted file... any ideas?

[gsocker]

When you tried deleting it from the command line, did you put single quotes around the file name?

sudo rm 'file name here.ext'

If you run

rm file name here.ext

without the quotes, it will treat each word as a separate file - the same effect as if you ran

 rm file 
rm name 
rm here.ext

Looking at the output, this appears to be what happened.

[tredegar]

It might be easiest to delete the file by its inode number.
First, find what the inode number is

cd Desktop
ls -i *

Make a note of the inode number of the greek file.
Now remove it:

find . -inum inodenumber -exec rm -i {} \;

Obviously, replace inodenumber with the number you noted down earlier.

[skag]

it worked with the inode number thnx i tried with ' ' at first but it said the same... thnx again