For what it's worth, my 'undeletable' files give every appearance of being 'plain' UTF-8 encoded file names. Wrote a perl script that looped through and used the 'bytes' pragma to look at the bytes. Looks like valid UTF-8. Also had it try to remove the files. Didn't work. Read 9 files 1: 2e >|. |< 2: 2e 2e >|.. |< 3: 42 6f 72 64 75 72 65 20 70 6f 69 6e 74 69 6c 6c >|Bordure pointill|< c3 a9 65 20 2d 20 42 6c 61 6e 63 2d 6e 6f 69 72 >|..e - Blanc-noir|< Unlink of "Bordure pointillée - Blanc-noir" failed: No such file or directory 4: 42 6f 72 64 75 72 65 20 70 6f 69 6e 74 69 6c 6c >|Bordure pointill|< c3 a9 65 20 2d 20 4e 6f 69 72 2d 62 6c 61 6e 63 >|..e - Noir-blanc|< Unlink of "Bordure pointillée - Noir-blanc" failed: No such file or directory 5: 43 61 64 72 65 20 63 65 6e 74 72 c3 a9 20 31 20 >|Cadre centr.. 1 |< 2d 20 42 61 73 65 >|- Base |< Unlink of "Cadre centré 1 - Base" failed: No such file or directory ....rest of output truncated. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs