Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Rehley
On Dec 11, 2004, at 9:07 PM, KevinGPO wrote: find . -type d | xargs chmod +w Hi guys, Thanks for your replies. Igor, I tried find . -type d | xargs chmod +w and then rm -Rf the main folder/directory. To no avail, it does not work :((( Coming in the middle, so I may be out of context or you might

Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD

2004-12-11 Thread KevinGPO
> find . -type d | xargs chmod +w > Hi guys, Thanks for your replies. Igor, I tried find . -type d | xargs chmod +w and then rm -Rf the main folder/directory. To no avail, it does not work :((( Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > and then your 'rm -rf' command again. > Igor --

Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD"!!!!

2004-12-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, KevinGPO wrote: > I got a problem in WindowsXP. I installed some sourcecode to compile using > Cygwin. Now I cannot seem to be able to remove/delete folders/files using the > "rm -Rf" force command in Cygwin. Here is a detailed listing of the > folder/files: > [snip] > Compiled

Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD"!!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Bobby McNulty
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:32:05PM +, KevinGPO wrote: $ rm -d * rm: cannot unlink `audio': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `cdrom': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `cpuinfo': Operation not permitted rm: cannot unlink `endian': Operation not perm

Re: HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD"!!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:32:05PM +, KevinGPO wrote: >$ rm -d * >rm: cannot unlink `audio': Operation not permitted >rm: cannot unlink `cdrom': Operation not permitted >rm: cannot unlink `cpuinfo': Operation not permitted >rm: cannot unlink `endian': Operation not permitted >rm: cannot un

HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD"!!!!

2004-12-09 Thread KevinGPO
I got a problem in WindowsXP. I installed some sourcecode to compile using Cygwin. Now I cannot seem to be able to remove/delete folders/files using the "rm -Rf" force command in Cygwin. Here is a detailed listing of the folder/files: CompiledLibraries/: total 0 drwx--+ 3 Kevin