I have about 11000 files on a hard disk that were generated by copying a directory structure from a dvd. The files are supposed to contain ascii data.
I am unable to read or inspect the contents of several of the files, I receive the error no such file or directory.
I am using cygwin on windows, and JAVA code to read/process the files. I have tried to open the files with textpad binary, but get the message that the file does not exist, after I selected the file from a file open dialog.
The first file that I looked at, fr005.1M was fine.
The rest of the files that I looked at, starting with fr005.1T, do not appear to have any content, but show up with a file size.
Any suggestions on how to determine why there is a file size but no apparent content? Is it possible to extract the ascii data?
Additional information:
Here are some cygwin command outputs to show the situation
Listing of files
$ ls -l fr005.*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 30331 2009-12-23 09:38 fr005.1M
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 21197 2009-12-23 09:38 fr005.1T
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 325696 2009-12-23 09:38 fr005.1X
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 1574 2009-12-23 09:38 fr005.4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 19387 2009-12-23 09:38 fr005.4M
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 48368 2009-12-23 09:38 fr005.5M
file fr005.1M has content as seen from the more command
$ more fr005.1M
A/C 614 Flight Run 5 "AMBIENT" MNVRCODE: -1.000 REGIME: -1 TRANS: 0 RDF: RDF
File 2 of 6
etc
file fr005.1T doesn't return anything with command more
$ more fr005.1T
(No output)
hexdump (and other binary editors) are unable to find the other files
$ hexdump fr005.1T
hexdump: fr005.1T: No such file or directory
$ hexdump fr005.4
hexdump: fr005.4: No such file or directory
$ hexdump fr005.1X
hexdump: fr005.1X: No such file or directory
$ hexdump fr005.4M
hexdump: fr005.4M: No such file or directory
$ hexdump fr005.5M
hexdump: fr005.5M: No such file or directory