[X-Unix] Using the CLI to delete "pesky" files/folders

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Mark Gibson assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Don,
| 
| Yes I thought about that, especially as its an external volume. 
| Problem is its a Big volume.
| 
| Its a 1Tb drive with a 650Gb odd Retrospect backup set on it (from 
| the home network) and formatting the drive isn't an option (don't 
| have another lying around to copy the files off and store whilst I 
| format the offending drive).

If something is indeed broken, as Don suggests, you might want to consider
backing up your data soon. I only say this because your in ability to
delete files may be indications of problems to come. Of course, you should
always keep backups ;).

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