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Re: Locked files on USB sticks in Linux Mint 19.3

19 January 2021 5:43 pm
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You are not doing anything wrong, Graeme.
cd "~/Documents/Untitled Folder" won't work, as you say. But
cd ~/"Documents/Untitled Folder"  does work. 
cd ~/Documents/"new folder" also works. 

Kevin is cd-ing from his home directory to /media so the ~/ is not necessary.  e.g.
keith@T500:~$ df | grep media
/dev/sdb1       30259440    30960  30228480   1% /media/keith/TOSHIBA
keith@T500:~$ cd "/media/keith/TOSHIBA"
keith@T500:/media/keith/TOSHIB...
You are not doing anything wrong, Graeme.
cd "~/Documents/Untitled Folder" won't work, as you say. But
cd ~/"Documents/Untitled Folder"  does work. 
cd ~/Documents/"new folder" also works. 

Kevin is cd-ing from his home directory to /media so the ~/ is not necessary.  e.g.
keith@T500:~$ df | grep media
/dev/sdb1       30259440    30960  30228480   1% /media/keith/TOSHIBA
keith@T500:~$ cd "/media/keith/TOSHIBA"
keith@T500:/media/keith/TOSHIB...