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>> Have you fscked the drive?  It sounds like it might be
>> slightly corrupt.
>>
>
> sorry, should have mentioned that the folder in question is on the FAT32 
> partition of the disk.

Sounds like a bad filesystem to me, but I don't know what to do about 
FAT32. Isn't their a chckdsk command or something like that in Windows?
Assuming it's not that, a variation on what others have suggested is

rm -i *

 	bjorn


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