Hello!
In my Downloads folder, I seem to have picked up this file from somewhere:.goutputstream-7GJZN1. Clamav doesn't see it, changing the permissions is allowed but it still won't delete; I can't move it, rename it, or anything else. The error message I get says the file doesn't exist, and its only 1kb. Tap on it though, and it says its 862.2 kib.
I tried googling the name; found some comments on askubuntu from waay back that said its supposed to be a temp file that wasn't deleted. I tried the 2 codes they gave to delete the file-the code doesn't work.
So, is this file really that harmless still? Is there any way to delete it? I don't like weird hidden files on my computer, even if they are harmless, and I don't want to create new ones, so if anyone knows how to get rid of this thing, and stop new ones from appearing, I'd appreciate it! Thanks in advance!
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.goutputstream-*-the file that will not die-what is this thing?
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Re: .goutputstream-*-the file that will not die-what is this thing?
A few things to try:
Then insert the inode number from the stat output:
You could try:
or
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stat <filename>
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find . -xdev -inum <inode-number> -exec rm {} \;
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unlink <filename>
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cat /dev/zero > <filename> && rm -f <filename>
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Re: .goutputstream-*-the file that will not die-what is this thing?
The last bit of code you gave me worked! It changed the file to "Unknown", then I deleted it. Thank you!