[TriLUG] how to list second of two dirs with same name

Tim Jowers timjowers at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 22:29:41 EDT 2012


I have now. And it worked.  :-) Getting my photos.

Thanks David,
Tim


On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you tried renaming 100JLCAM to 100JLCAM.bak ?
>
> It'll probably just rename the first one, though the behavior might depend
> on what OS you run.  If it doesn't solve the problem when you do it from
> Linux, try doing it from Windoze.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  I have two folders with the same name.  A quick search said this can't
> > exist but it does on this SD card in this cheapo Vivitar Vivicam
> > 7028.Because of this, I cannot copy my photos from the SDCard. When I
> tried
> > to copy from the command line I get this:
> >
> > [tim at gaateboox 3036-3032]$ cp -fr * ~/Backup/16GBmicroHD/.
> > cp: cannot create directory
> `/home/tim/Backup/16GBmicroHD/./DCIM/100JLCAM':
> > File exists
> >
> > See, the copying of the 100JLCAM folder worked for the first folder by
> that
> > name but not for the second. i think all the files are in the second
> > folder.
> >
> > Any ideas how to get into that second folder?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > tim
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