Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: >> On this old drive. I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out >> of the new drive and then tested it a few more times. Looks good for >> the new drive. I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it >> at least get to where that bad spot is. I figure if I let dd do its >> thing on the whole drive, that should get it, unless I lose power or >> something and have to stop it. After that, I'm going to put a file >> system on it and fill it up and test it and see what it says then. >> Maybe it will fix itself and I can at least use it as a occasional >> backup or something. I dunno. >> >> I noticed when I copied the data over that some files had a line of >> question marks in the name. Since a question mark is a wild card, I >> can't find them now. How does one search for a file name that has a >> wild card in it? > > escape the character with a \ > > But that's not your main problem. You got those filenames because the > source disk somehow has a problem and the names couldn't be read > properly. So junk was used instead. > > Reasons vary, but the basics never change: there is a problem with your > source disk and now you need to go find what that problem is. >
Well, the drive is replaced but it copied the "bad" file over as well. I just want to find it so that I can check it and delete it if it is bad. It's one of my videos so no point in some corrupted file hanging around if it is no good. Plus, I hope I can figure out what is missing and find a copy on youtube or something. Maybe I will be that lucky. Now to go see if I can find it again. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
