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Sorry, I had sent my question to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk-request@gtlug.org">talk-request@gtlug.org</a>. I guess
that is why you did not receive it. I usually do an hour of research
before I reach out to this group, just so you know. <br>
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Thanks, Howard, for your response. I will check out your how-to.<br>
<br>
Quote: "Chris, I have posted a UNIX Command Line HOWTO on my
website. I explain wildcards on it. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/UnixHowto.html">http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/UnixHowto.html</a>
<div class="moz-txt-sig">-- Howard Gibson" </div>
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Thanks, Kevin for your reply. I will try your suggestions below
(however, renaming the file was not working for me, and that's why I
originally reached out. Catch 22: Could not open file because of '?'
and could not rename file because of '?'<br>
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Quote: "Regarding the question, if you are using the command line
you can use \ to escape the ? when entering the copy command. You
could also use
<br>
"cp -i start_of_filename* some_destination" then say yes or no as
to which file(s) you want to copy. If you want to copy the file from
a graphical desktop you can open the file browser program (e.g. caja
in Linux Mint) and use it to select and copy the file.
<br>
<br>
You may want to rename the file to remove the ? from the filename to
make it easier to work with the file.
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<br>
<span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Cheers!
<br>
<br>
Kevin."<br>
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Below I cut n pasted my orginal post and follow-up. I'm trying to
play catch-up here while making the post make sense,
chronologically:<br>
<br>
I'm getting input/output error at command line, as well as in the
GUI.
<br>
mv
/media/owner/Storage/Pictures/HelenAlbum/1953?0000.helengr13grad17craigcres.jpg
19530000.helengr13grad17craigcres.jpg
<br>
mv: cannot stat
'/media/owner/Storage/Pictures/HelenAlbum/1953?0000.helengr13grad17craigcres.jpg':
Input/output error
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On 2021-02-19 7:24 a.m., Chris Aitken wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;">Now I can't access
the folder contents. It seems by using a '?' in a file name, I've
caused a problem. It was never an issue until now. I use this
external SATA drive in USB docking station, and go back and forth
between ubuntu and W10 computers, to make backups.
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On 2021-02-19 6:10 a.m., Chris Aitken wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;">Hi,
<br>
I can't rename files on my external drive in Ubuntu. I've tried
a few things that people have posted about Nautilus. But this is
not Nautilus - the application is just called 'Files'.
<br>
Chris
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