some letters on HD wont show

[Jonas]

Hello

I have a old FAT drive that used to be a external but the hardware failed on it and now I made it a conventional internal (NOTE - The actual drive is working as intended)

Some folders wont show or be read since they have "unconventional" letters like åöä/ÅÖÄ that show up like a question mark. kdesudo and make this drive user run don't work like it used to when it was a external, and I can't access some of the folder in it.

any suggestions ?

b.r

jonas

[oshunluvr]

I have has some sucess renaming these types of files/directories using krename.

[Jonas]

Thank you for the tip, but krename wont play along. I think it's because of some user/root privileges. I can't access these files to change it to user permissions. How would I change it to UTF 8(or other that can read åäö etc) encoding on the harddrive?

Right now the owner is root

b.r

Jonas

[Snowhog]

You are able to 'see' these folders/files. So, you should also be able to 'manipulate' them from the CLI (console/terminal) using globbing (wild cards). If for example, a file 'looked' like this:

Da??e?to_?.txt (here, the ? is what is displayed for an unrecognized character)

And if it was owned by root, you should be able to change ownership to your user with:

sudo chown user:user Da??e?to_?.txt (here, the ? is a wildcard for a single character 'in that position' of the named file/folder)

Similarly, renaming such folders/files should be doable in the same manner.