I use an AMOD AGL3080 GPS logger in my photography. For a few days now, I cannot get it to do anything. The storage light stays on, but nothing happens. I thought that I’m out of disc space, maybe the trash is taking up all the free space? But that seemed not to be the case – I had 112MB free.
Today I got to look at this more closely for the first time. In the .Trashes directory, there is a ‘501’ directory, and under that, I get the following:
$ ls -lha ls: QzÌÇÃ\026gYø.Å?\036: No such file or directory ls: yÌdÃÃæerË.^iÌn: No such file or directory $ $ rm * rm: cannot remove `QzÌÇÃ\026gYø.Å?\036': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `yÌdÃÃæerË.^iÌn': No such file or directory
Eventually, I gave up and plugged it into a linux box. Now the ‘501’ didn’t show up as a directory any more, but as a file. rm -rf, unmount it, switch it on, and what do you know, it’s working! I’m not sure if just deleting the 501 from the terminal in OSX would have worked, it probably would have. I just find it strange that it showed up as a directory and not a regular file.