Photorec recup_dir files unremovable

[4aDummy]

I recently used Photorec Testdisk to recover some files from a 5 TB portable drive. It left several hundred recup_dir files in my home directory and I cant get rid of them no matter how hard I try i just get "access denied" in some way or other. I was able to copy them to another drive. I no longer need them. Im running Kubuntu 21.04.

 

[JasKinasis]

What are the permissions on those recup_dir files?

 

[4aDummy]

I feel stupid now.
"Sudo rm recup_dir*" done. After several different combo's of this command failed.

 

[captain-sensible]

we've all been there !

 

[Tolkem]

I feel stupid now.
"Sudo rm recup_dir*" done. After several different combo's of this command failed.

Yeah, when using photorec or testdisk to recover files, the recup_dir it's owned by root, since you run either tool with sudo, so you can delete with sudo, like you just did, or change the ownership

sudo chown -R username:usergroup /path/to/recup_dir

then you can just delete it from the file manager

 

[4aDummy]

Yeah, when using photorec or testdisk to recover files, the recup_dir it's owned by root, since you run either tool with sudo, so you can delete with sudo, like you just did, or change the ownership

sudo chown -R username:usergroup /path/to/recup_dir

then you can just delete it from the file manager

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