This is the situation I'm dealing with:
I plugged my USB in my laptop, then I created a folder within it, and nautilus stopped working for a while, I unplugged the USB and plugged back in, BUT this time there was 2 folders created, I have no access to anyone of them from Ubuntu, not even starting nautilus as root, the only way to see the files is in a Virtual Machine using Windows XP.
When accessing the folder via Terminal and typing "dir" within the folder it'll show this:
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I can't delete anything. Help (?)
dir
before. I always usels
, but they seem like the same.) – Sparhawk Aug 14 '13 at 23:53dd
, and try to recover your data. @Sparhawkdir
is thels
of windows ;) – Braiam Aug 14 '13 at 23:53dmesg
show you after plugging in, mounting it and showing the contents? 4) Have you tried running a filesystem check on the flash drive? 5) Are you sure the flash drive is still working properly (run some disk checks)? 6) How does the contents look in the GUI/Nautilus?dir
is an alias ofls -C -b
. http://askubuntu.com/questions/103913/difference-between-dir-and-ls-terminal-commands – Sparhawk Aug 15 '13 at 02:59