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I am tidying up my back up drive

root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC# ls -la | grep Goo
drwx-w--w- 1 pi pi    4096 Nov 17  2016 Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files
-rw------- 1 pi pi  673696 Nov 17  2016 Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016.htm
root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC# chmod 777 Google\ Calendar\ -\ Month\ of\ Nov\ 2016_files/

changed permissions

root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC# ls -la | grep Goo
drwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi    4096 Nov 17  2016 Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files

down a folder and list an example file

went down a directory and list an example

root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive#  ls -l  | grep Jane-
drwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi   24576 Jun 20  2018 Jane-PC
root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC# cd Google\ Calendar\ -\ Month\ of\ Nov\ 2016_files/
root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC/Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files# ls -l | grep rsA
-rw------- 1 pi pi 137650 Nov 17  2016 rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw
-rw------- 1 pi pi 315600 Nov 17  2016 rsANwU0p4TXBrw57nAJSu_NbEilyn1-9G5yA

tried changing attributes

root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC/Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files# chmod 777 rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw 
chmod: changing permissions of 'rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw': Operation not supported
root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC/Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files# chown root:root rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw 
chown: changing ownership of 'rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw': Operation not supported

find the inode and try and delete it

root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC/Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files# ls -li | grep rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw 
87770 -rw------- 1 pi pi 137650 Nov 17  2016 rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw
root@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Seagate Expansion Drive/Jane-PC/Google Calendar - Month of Nov 2016_files# find . -inum 87770  -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove regular file './rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw'? y
rm: cannot remove './rsAA2YrTtjxqe5r5aTKPlGbDLVedABH8C6Lw': Operation not permitted

so what next ?

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    What filesystem does your Seagate Expansion Drive use? I experienced similar problems with a device that has the NTFS filesystem. Have you tried the -f option of the rm command (be careful though that -f and -i are not compatible: -f will NOT ask you if you really want to remove a file). You can try sudo rm: as the superuser you should be able to bypass permissions (I'm not completely sure of it, though). You could also try to use the mv command to move the file somewhere else and then delete it from there. Note: be careful when you use the rm command as "undo" is not an option
    – LuxGiammi
    Commented May 18, 2019 at 13:59
  • its NTFS. But it seemd to be working OK until I had to replace the micro SD card that the pi was using
    – user358360
    Commented May 18, 2019 at 14:36
  • but when I plug it into a win10 machine , I can delete the folder .
    – user358360
    Commented May 20, 2019 at 9:57

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Reset to default
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sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

fixed it

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