[gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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Howdy,

I have a couple deer trail cameras.  They use SDHC cards.  I have
several of these.  I was playing with one that hasn't been used in a
while and was going to set it up to use for other things.  I put it in
my card reader and opened it with Dolphin.  I then right clicked on the
directory and chose move to trash.  When it was done, I unmounted it
using Device Notifier.  I unplugged the card reader and plugged it back
in again.  When I mount it with Device Notifier and opened it with
Dolphin, the files were still there.  They didn't delete or move
anywhere.  There was no error either. Also, refreshing the tab in
Dolphin doesn't work either.  I thought maybe it just cached what was
there and wasn't updating so I did a F5 to force it.  Tried it several
times actually.  Also, before I unmount the card, it shows the files are
deleted.  They just reappear after a unmount and remount again.

I thought I'd use a little more brute force.  I started the process over
again the usual way.  I then went to a Konsole which is logged in as
root, I did a rm -rfv for the main directory on the card.  It showed it
deleted all the files.  I then did the sync command, to make sure
everything was done, and told Device Notifier to unmount it.  I
unplugged it and plugged it back up again.  When I mount it and open it
with Dolphin, there the files are.  Even as root and not moving to
trash, the files don't delete. 

Keep in mind, I can write new files to the little cards.  So I'm pretty
sure it is not a write protection problem or a permissions problem. 
It's just a can't delete or move to trash problem. 

Anyone ever ran into something like this?  When rm -rfv doesn't work,
I'm not sure how much more brute force there is short of a hammer. 

Thoughts??

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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