Quote Originally Posted by Markus
Have you tried creating a group with GID 1850683641 and then chowning/deleting?
Yes Markus. That was my first thought also.
I created a user and group with the same name/numbers as the file owner/group.
I added my user to that group. I then tried to chown the files. No good.
I tried to move them to another directory as root. No good.

I had this same problem last year on my Debian box and eventually had to
wipe the entire disk and start over. I am trying to straighten this out without
doing that again.

I have considered adding another HDD but the problem will still be there after
I move all of the other files.

There is some sort of corruption going on here. I just noticed the dates on the files.
They are 01-03-77 and 04-02-87. Nothing I have tried works. I get "access denied"
or "operation not permitted" errors.