I would unmount the drive and run fsck on it. I've seen weird files show up like that on a corrupted encfs filesystem, but not on ext3. -Steve Jordan Peacock wrote: > It's an external hard drive, ext3 formatted. > > The file was originally saved by myself on another ext3 drive, copied to > an NTFS (? assumed, not sure) drive and then over to this current ext3 > formatted drive by a friend of mine. > > Worst case scenario is that the files are truly corrupt...hopefully > that's not the case, but that's a possibility I can't dismiss completely > either. > > 2008/3/21 Steve Cayford <strayf at freeshell.org > <mailto:strayf at freeshell.org>>: > > Jordan Peacock wrote: > > Alright... > > > > First tried the file command > > root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# file > > 2006-07-10\ -\ Sæglópur > > *2006-07-10 - Sæglópur: ERROR: cannot open `2006-07-10 - Sæglópur' > > (No such file or directory)* > > [...] > > Noticing this is under /media, is this on a USB device or something? > What kind of filesystem? > > -Steve > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > -- > Jordan Peacock > hewhocutsdown at gmail.com <mailto:hewhocutsdown at gmail.com> > hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com <http://hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com>