A folder was created in my home folder (not by anyone), and I cannot see the folder contents. She has root privileges, but when the nautilus root access the folder is empty. When I try to remove it, it will appear to remove more than 1 million files from my computer, and I do not know what these files are.
How i can see these files? the name of folder created is "4F8ZBREShQ". I'm scared about it...
Short answer: do
rm -r 4F8ZBREShQ
and go for a walk or get yourself a coffee.
Long answer:
Seems a bug of BleachBit. See http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/forum/unremovable-folder-after-trying-wipe-free-space; you can join the discussion there.
The OP of Not able to delete folder from gui or terminal has been able to get rid of it, see the answer; but probably his method is overkill.
In effect, doing a rm -r 4F8ZBREShQ and being patient (really really patient; ext4 is not a speed monster for large directories, and this is LARGE) would work.
Recent ext4 should use a linear time with the size of the directory for the deletion process; even then, deleting millions of files will require a considerable time --- from tens of minutes to several hours.
That file you are referring to is probably just a file full of zeros or random data that bleachbit uses to wipe free space. If bleachbit fails or is turned off before wiping is complete the huge file remains. It is safe to run the command "rm -rf" A similar thing will happen when you overwrite free space manually using the "dd" command. "dd if=/dev/zero of=/user/sloshnmosh/Desktop/junkfile bs=4k conv=notrunc" after all space is overwritten you would issue the command "rm /user/sloshnmosh/Desktop/junkfile" Bleachbit was simply shut off unexpectedly before being able to issue the "rm" command leaving all the zeros or /dev/urandom data that was used to occupy (overwrite) disk free space.
I was dealing with the same problem and the solution was to run in terminal rm -r "folder_name" and wait until is done.
