Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic can't get into directory Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]jamescoleman[/m] at 8:44 pm on June 30, 2008[quote]naw that didn't work... thanks for the advice though[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post jamescoleman Posted at 8:36 pm on June 30, 2008 So I'm learning to mount ntfs partitions and I can see the files but I can't change directory in linux to a file with spaces. for example root@trk: /etc/mnt/c ls this/     that/     documents and settings/ i can't get into documents and settings i've tried cd /Documents and Settings cd Documents and Settings/ cd Documents and Settings I'm like how am I supposed to do data recovery when I can't even get into a directory that has a file name that is separated. any help

Replies jamescoleman Posted at 4:20 pm on July 1, 2008 "http://www.michaeldolan.com/49"; don't enter the quotes :P pleaseremove Posted at 7:48 am on July 1, 2008 Quote: from jamescoleman at 2:04 pm on July 1, 2008 no i never use quotes for commands well, thats the standard way to deal with dirs with spaces in. Are you going to bother explaining what the answer you found is then? jamescoleman Posted at 6:04 am on July 1, 2008 no i never use quotes for commands pleaseremove Posted at 1:38 am on July 1, 2008 I take it you used quotes jamescoleman Posted at 8:45 pm on June 30, 2008 I got the answer ! :D soo happy lol jamescoleman Posted at 8:44 pm on June 30, 2008 naw that didn't work... thanks for the advice though Skyler72 rawrr Posted at 8:37 pm on June 30, 2008 Try underscores. All 7 previous replies displayed.