I am trying to delete NES off of my iPhone but it wont work i'm using WinSCP but it doesn't allow you to delete while the files are in use and you can't turn off your phone otherwise you disconnect from WinSCP how else can you do this.
Deleting APPS?
- Thread starter Ceramicwhite
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You can exit the NES app by holding down the Menu key till the Menu appears.
Also, if rm isn't on your iPhone you can't delete using WinSCP.
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Mike
It's the "remove" (delete) utility. WinSCP uses it to delete files. You can use it from a command line too.
You can get it as part of the iPhone binket:
http://iPhone.natetrue.com/iphone-binkit-0.06.tar.gz
Just place a copy of rm in your /bin folder and you will be fine. You probably should install a few other utilities as well, such as mkdir (or all of them, if you want).
Might as well throw a copy of screenshot in there too. Then you can use WinSCP to take easy screen shots (right click screenshot in WinSCP, choose Custom Commands, and then Execute--screenshot PNG will be in /var/tmp).
If you have any problems check permissions (0755).
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Mike
Can you delete any file with WinSCP? Did you set the permissions of the files copied to \bin to 0755?
An easy test is to copy a simple text file to the iPhone with WinSCP and then immediately try to delete it. Without rm it shouldn't let you. With it, you can delete it.
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Mike
An easy test is to copy a simple text file to the iPhone with WinSCP and then immediately try to delete it. Without rm it shouldn't let you. With it, you can delete it.
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Mike
all the permissions are fine but when i added a txt document it still didn't work i got this
Command 'rm -f -r "New Text Document.txt"'
failed with return code 126 and error message
-sh: line 78: /bin/rm: Permission denied.
but the permissions are set to 0755
I had this same problem for a while and finally figured it out!
I had 'rm' and 'rmdir' in the '/bin/' folder, but neither file was set to be an "executable". In WinSCP, I had to navigate to these two files, right-click, choose "Properties", and then change their permissions to:
I had 'rm' and 'rmdir' in the '/bin/' folder, but neither file was set to be an "executable". In WinSCP, I had to navigate to these two files, right-click, choose "Properties", and then change their permissions to:
Octal: 0755
Earlier, I thought that I was supposed to change the permissions on the files and folders I was trying to delete. Doh!
thanks for that but I just went to the root and selected everything and changed permission on everything to 0755 it still didn't work so I don't know what else to do
I ran into the same problem. You need to set execute permissions on the rm file within the BIN folder to fix it. Then you can right-click and delete files using Winscp.
i use the program fugu.. you cant delete the folder until its contents are deleted. so enter the folder delete all the contents within the folder then navigate back to the folder. from there you can delete the actual folder which isn't really necessary. next time you restart your iPhone it should be deleted from your iPhone...
I have tried that it didn't work maalesh like I said I set everything to 0755 still didn't work bit I will try that file specifically