Delete corrupted folder

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Published on 2012-08-30T23:48:48Z Indexed on 2012/08/31 3:50 UTC
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I am trying to delete a folder in my home directory; its name is completely garbled. In Nautilus, the garbled text is followed by 'Invalid Directory.'

Deleting it with Nautilus stalls; I can't type in the garbled name in the terminal.

peter@io_vbox:~$ ls -lbdR *
...
drwxrwxr-x 3 peter peter      4096 Jul 28 15:19 \346>\3152\357+\332)\363*\356,\253-\277+H&\266\033z\v\373\366\340\340?\314\022\274P\262\003\260?\303p\326\342\351\214\374f\016X\036r)!.\026
...

Any ideas?

Running 12.04; if it's of any importance, this is running in VirtualBox on a Macbook Air. It was installed through VirtualBox. I don't have any other signs of SSD failure that I've picked up on -- referring to this question: Random files (invalid encoding) appearing in home directory

Thanks

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