The first error is received using your suggestion. I tried adding a directory in that folder with the name 'newname', which yielded the second error. root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# mv 2006-07-10\ -\ Sæglópur 2006-07-10\ -\ Sæglópur newname *mv: target `newname' is not a directory* root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# sudo mv 2006-07-10\ -\ Sæglópur 2006-07-10\ -\ Sæglópur newname *mv: cannot stat `2006-07-10 - Sæglópur': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `2006-07-10 - Sæglópur': No such file or directory* root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# Thank you On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 at umn.edu> wrote: > Open up command line (terminal) and change directory to where that > directory or file is located. Type in "mv 2006***press tab button > here*** newname" where ***press tab button here*** means you actually > press the tab button (once or twice) for tab name completion. > > Jordan Peacock wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure how this folder arrived on my doorstep, but I'm > > having some problems with it. As you can see in the screenshot, the > > name is pretty bizarre, and once I click on the folder (i know it's > > supposed to be a folder) it disappears. Attempting to move it or > > rename it using the command line have failed so far. > > > > Any ideas? There are files inside that folder that I need. > > > > Thank you > > > > -- > > Jordan Peacock > > hewhocutsdown at gmail.com <mailto:hewhocutsdown at gmail.com> > > hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com <http://hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080321/e0fc2a57/attachment.htm