Re: gconf can not remove directory

[Pierre Kleiber <pkleiber hi gmail com>]

Two utilities that help you find things are locate and find
Read about them by doing "man find" or "man locate"

Cheers

Auguste Pop offered the following remark on 10/30/10 01:06...
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your reply. I guess deleting the directory would be OK
> as long as I know where the directory is. I mistyped /schemas/... into
> /schema/.... And I can not find it in my ~/.gconf directory, and
> neither in /root/.gconf. Where should I look now?
>
> Thank you for your kind attention.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Steven<steven young 1 gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hi, ive never used gconf but can't you just use rm?
> > (sudo rm -r /path/to/directory)
> >
> > [*WARNING NEVER USE RM IN THE / DIRECTORY WITHOUT EXTREME CAUTION*]
> >
> > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:18 +0800, Auguste Pop wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I created a wrong directory for my own application in gconf by a typo.
> > > When I try to remove it by gconf_engine_remove_dir, I got the GError
> > > stating: "Failed: Remove directory operation is no longer supported,
> > > just remove all the values in the directory."
> > >
> > > Should I reinstall the whole system to get rid of the directory?
> > > Living with it is simply not an option  for me. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
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