How to fix "This file or directory does not exist"

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Friday, April 11th 2003, 1:23pm

On my desktop, I see an icon with strange name. When I re-move it, I get "this file or directory does not exist". Even login as root, I still can't re-move it, can't change its name. How can I fix this problem. I just want to delete it.

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SuGa

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Saturday, April 12th 2003, 12:20am

Is it also in your ~/Desktop directory? :-)

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czgu

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Saturday, April 12th 2003, 12:18pm

Yes it is always in KDE desktop. I fixed the problem by copying every personel things to some place, then deleting the user, re-creating it, putting everything back.

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thuswa

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Wednesday, April 16th 2003, 9:37am

Re: How to fix "This file or directory does not exist&q

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On my desktop, I see an icon with strange name. When I re-move it, I get "this file or directory does not exist". Even login as root, I still can't re-move it, can't change its name. How can I fix this problem. I just want to delete it.

This typically happens when you have strange characters in the file/directory name. Try to delete the file/directory from thw CL using the \ sign before the strange characters.

Ofcorse I use windows, how else would I get fresh air into the room?

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