Cannot delete/rename/move a file of Windows with a special character

Not so long ago, I used a portable hard drive to pass data between my PC and my MacBook (Running OS X 10.11.1).)

Unfortunately, I was stupid to create an alias of my portable hard drive on the desktop of my Mac by chance, just after my hard drive mounting.

The issue is that I can't even delete/rename/move it. Restart the system does not work, and commands (sudo rm/mv...) since the Terminal does not work either.

When I tried to delete/move the alias file, I got what is like that, "the operation cannot be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code - 50)."

And when you try to rename it with the name of the file 'a', I got what is, "try using a name with fewer characters, or no punctuation.". "

I think that this probably has to do with the name of the hard disk, which has a weird character "NULL", a character. This character is possibly legal in Windows, but illegal in OS X? Or maybe there are some differences between Windows and Mac, interpreting a file name?

Any help, thanks!

I would like to try the list to see what is happening one:

# display the characters hidden in the form of numbers

LS - lb

# If you have a lot of files in the directory

LS - lb | more

LS - lB

I assumed that you released the flash player.

usually, you can type a few characters and then press tap to get the rest of the printed characters.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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