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…
Best Answer
Short answer: do
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 4F8ZBREShQand 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.