Openbor - how to delete unnecessary files?

mitu

@SuperFella said in Openbor - how to delete unnecessary files?:

(The folder has 0755 permissions, should be fine.) Anyone know how to do it?

How are you trying to delete the files ? 0755 permissions means only the owner has write permissions on the folder.

SuperFella

@mitu I am the owner. (It makes no difference if I set the permissions to 0777.) I'm trying to delete them via WinSCP, they don't show up in EmulationStation.

mitu

@SuperFella Show a screenshot of the files and their permissions.

SuperFella

@mitu

mitu

@SuperFella Your screenshot shows that the owner is the root user - so if you are logged in as user pi with WinSCP, it's normal that you don't have access to delete the files.

SuperFella

@mitu So how do I fix it? How did it get to have a different owner to every other folder on the Pi?

SuperFella

If I hit F8 here, will it delete the Super Mario Brawl folder? I'm very wary of hitting Delete keys when I don't know what I'm doing.

stoo

I'm no expert, but I think you can get temporary root permissions by doing

sudo su

~~and entering your password.~~

Then the following should delete all those files:

rm -rf /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/openbor/original/*

Then just type

exit

to exist su and go back to Pi user.

Of course you have to SSH into your Pi or exit EmulationStation to the console. (and have a keyboard)

mitu

@SuperFella said in Openbor - how to delete unnecessary files?:

@mitu So how do I fix it?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#reset-ownershippermissions-of-homepiretropie-roms

How did it get to have a different owner to every other folder on the Pi?

How did you copy the files there ?

SuperFella

@mitu That did the trick, thanks!