[PLUG] Nautilus sees files, but cp does not

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:42:57 -0500
Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> dijo:

>On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>> That's where things are weird. The cp command does not even see the files
>> that have the X on them. Using tab for the above three files displays only
>> the middle one, as though the others don't exist. And I'm doing it as root.
>> Man cp doesn't tell me anything useful.
>
>Can you post the output from listing the folder?  For example:
>
>foo={absolute path to ~/Desktop on Jaunty folder}
>ls -la $foo/App*

No, the ls command doesn't see the files with the X on them in Nautilus either.
Neither does mv. As far as I can tell they are completely invisible to any
terminal command.

However, in the process of installing Fedora 11 I installed the Xfce4 desktop
as well as the Gnome desktop that I normally use. Because of issues with Gnome
(abundantly documented here) I wanted something else that I could log into in
case Gnome blew up on me again. Xfce installed Thunar file manager. And root
was able to launch Thunar. And Thunar as root was happy to drag and drop the
obstreperous files. 

I'd still like to know WTH is going on with the terminal window. The files
really are there. I am not making this up.