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I create daily backups on a NAS drive. When the new one is complete I delete the previous day. I've been unable to delete the folder from the 8th because I don't have permissions to delete files. I just deleted 06112023, so I definitely have permissions on the main folder.

If I open the root folder itself in terminal and run "sudo rm -rf 06082023" I get the same lack of permission error. What do?

(06082023 is the folder I'm trying to delete.)

I create daily backups on a NAS drive. When the new one is complete I delete the previous day. I've been unable to delete the folder from the 8th because I don't have permissions to delete files. I just deleted 06112023, so I definitely have permissions on the main folder. If I open the root folder itself in terminal and run "sudo rm -rf 06082023" I get the same lack of permission error. What do? (06082023 is the folder I'm trying to delete.)

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ls -l shows me as the owner of all the folders on the drive. (I'm logged into the NAS already.)

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And you can't delete the folder as root user on the NAS?

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And you can't delete the folder as root user on the NAS?

Correct. I am the root user, logged into the NAS itself, and can delete other folders. I can also add folders. It's just this one that is being stubborn. :-)

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Wow. That's interesting, I've never encountered a situation where root couldn't delete a folder. It's possible there's corruption somewhere else, I'd be wary of other things going bad.

My solution would be to move what you want out of that directory, go up a level, and then sudo rm -r /path/to/directory and just delete the top level directory that contains the bad file(s).

Just make sure you're deleting the correct directory, -r is a powerful switch.

However, if that doesn't work, you have issues elsewhere that may not be a simple permissions error. Sometimes the gui of the NAS can override stuff the command shell doesn't do, if you have one of those.