Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-) >
Hmmmmm, slight glitch maybe. It listed some files with a question mark in it but not the ones I am looking for. So, is it possible that since it couldn't read the file it just skipped them? I used rsync to do the copy instead of cp. Maybe that is it or otherwise, I have a ton of directories to go diggin in to find them since it isn't the one I thought it was. Dale :-) :-)
