Deleting Image/Video Files from SD Card

[usc]

There are multiple ways to delete image/video files from the RPi SD card, but I'm looking to see if anyone has deleted image/video files only.

I want to avoid reformatting the SD card and re-imaging.  I also want to avoid deleting the entire /dev/root folder (where the files + other files are located):



I tried deleting video files with Bitvise SSH client but don't have "permission."  I tried deleting image files with DiskInternals Linux Reader and no luck there either.  Any thoughts?

[Austin MnSGC]

Have you tried navigating to the file's directory and doing " sudo rm -rf 'file' "? That's how I usually delete videos and images.

[Skylar MSGC]

I would just recommend: sudo rm <filename> if you are deleting just files, what Austin recommended applies to folders also.

sudo rm -rf <foldername/filename>

-r is a recusive flag for rm, if you are deleting everything inside of a folder this is the flag that you should use.
-f is a force flag for rm, this will force rm to delete a files that it normally

I would caution using -rf unless you are sure of your files name and that you won't delete anything else.