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  1. Pony Pony

    Can somepony explain this to me? The file exists. I've opened it, copied it, and opened and deleted its copy successfully, but this file won't delete. http://ur1.ca/9v0ya

    Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:11:16 UTC from web
    1. derpyshy / chem derpyshy / chem

      @pony Close the file x3

      Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:12:59 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      1. Pony Pony

        @derpyshy I have. I only opened it for the screen shot.. so odd.

        Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:13:42 UTC from web
        1. derpyshy / chem derpyshy / chem

          @pony hm. Maybe it's still running, in some background-program?

          Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:14:14 UTC from MuSTArDroid
          1. Pony Pony

            @derpyshy thanks anyway! I should be able to iron out the kinks in windows

            Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:22:01 UTC from web
        2. Omni Omni

          @pony Wait, is it a Wubi installation? I believe that changes a lot because it's using Microsoft's NTFS file system then, instead of something more... compatible (especially Ubuntu has limited NTFS tools as they can be buggy at times)

          Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:19:10 UTC from MuSTArDroid
          1. Pony Pony

            @omni Oh! yeah this is Wubi. That makes sense. thanks!

            Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:20:12 UTC from web
      2. Omni Omni

        @derpyshy Linux can delete files which are in use, it doesn't lock files like Windows does

        Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:15:01 UTC from MuSTArDroid
        1. derpyshy / chem derpyshy / chem

          @omni *gives my laptop a small slap* hrmmpfh

          Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:16:09 UTC from MuSTArDroid
        2. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

          @omni And it won't even break the running application since those files are copied into memory. This can lead to some surprises when closing and then trying to reopen a program which relies on a library that has been deleted or replaced.

          Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:21:25 UTC from web
          1. Omni Omni

            @toksyuryel But I like that behaviour, it feels cool to run a program that's no longer on your PC (and the non-breaking saved me when I accidentally deleted /usr/bin because I could look up a fix in Firefox)

            Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:24:35 UTC from MuSTArDroid
            1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

              @omni I wasn't saying I didn't like it, I was just mentioning it.

              Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:27:15 UTC from web
    2. Omni Omni

      @pony Looks like Nautilus (the file manager) is being slow. You could try pressing F5 in the file manager to force it to refresh (ugh, Ubuntu, y u so Windows-like at times with your silly little bugs?)

      Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:14:00 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      1. Pony Pony

        @omni :P well that was worth a try. It does take it unusually long to finish loading that folder. For like 30 seconds it shows every file and folder but that image, then the image pops back up like it's always been there.

        Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:19:31 UTC from web
        1. Omni Omni

          @pony Maybe a background process is having the file open and being a bad program and is resaving the file when you delete it? :x

          Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:22:28 UTC from MuSTArDroid
          1. Pony Pony

            @omni Well, I can't imagine which program would. It's a completely random file I hadn't touched until, in the terminal, I tried to move it to a new directory, and it gave me the same error as when I tried to delete it, that it doesn't exist.

            Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:24:44 UTC from web
            1. Omni Omni

              @pony I can only imagine the NTFS system bugging out. It's far from perfect but because so many people dual-boot with Windows (which uses NTFS) these tools are bundled in most mayor Linux distributions. It's somewhat like WINE, works half the time, but you can't trust it to always work flawlessly.

              Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:28:49 UTC from MuSTArDroid
              1. Pony Pony

                @omni well how odd! I have an error in Windows too saying the file is corrupted or unreadable, yet again I can copy it and open and delete copies no problem.

                Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:34:08 UTC from web
              2. Pony Pony

                and now it won't let me delete the file even in Windows Dx

                Tuesday, 31-Jul-12 10:35:39 UTC from web