On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tal Amir wrote:

> hi list,
> 
> i have a folder containing mp3, sitting in my linux box and shared to the
> rest of the lan via samba.
> this folder contains a bus foler with hebrew files (that i was foolish
> enough to name in hebrew fonts.)
> 
> the situation is that linux shows the files as empty directory's (even if
> it is an mp3 file) and cannot access, rename or delete it in any way.
> 
> i cannot access those files from windows or linux in any way at all.
> is there any way to restore the files, or even to delete them ?
> because when an application from windows tried to read the directory in
> question, it gets a fatal error and crushes. (how NOT ms tipical..)  ;)

How did you try to access the files in linux?
How did the files get in the directory in the first place?
  Can you send us (partial) output of "ls -la --show-control-chars" in the
specified directory... we need to find out the character set of these
filenames...

  Alon

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