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how to delete a folder with no name??
i created a folder with no name by renaming a folder to(alt + 0160) but after that i m not able to delete , move or rename that folder...... plzz. suggest how can i delete it????????? i can open the folder and also others items can be moved or copied into that folder.... but this no name folder cannot be deleted!!!!!!!! -- subratalok Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
Try and right click the folder and click take ownership of the folder, then try and delete it. -- .Joe .Joe™ '[image: http://valid.x86-secret.com/cache/banner/323179.png]' (http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=323179) |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
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how to delete a folder with no name??
What doesn't work?
When following up to a previous post, you don't need to include everything. Snip out what's not relevant. But do include what is relevant. Some people may have missed the original post. Try this: Add "Take Ownership" to right-click menu in Vista http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm ========================== Got Vista problems or questions? Start here. ========================== http://www.vistax64.com/search.php "subratalok" wrote in message ... that doesn't work... -- subratalok Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
Hi, subratalok.
That file has a name, even if you can't see it. Open a Command Prompt window (cmd.exe). At the prompt, type: dir /x That should show you all the files and folders in that directory. The one that you named (alt + 0160) should appear with no name in the normal list of files, but the column before that should show it as "0A00~1". That is the Short File Name, also known as the SFN or the 8.3 filename. Now use RD to remove that: rd 0a00~1 By the way, you posted this via VistaHeads.com, which "slurps" messages from the Microsoft public news server and relays them - and any responses - back and forth. This relay often results in messages that are delayed or out of sequence or simply lost. To "cut out the middleman", click he news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ile_management That one click should fire up your default newsreader (OE or WM or WLM or third-party reader); create a News Account on the MS public server, which is free and does not require you to logon; subscribe you to THIS newsgroup; download the 300 newest posts; and display the latest message for you to read. In other words, you will come right back here, but you will be viewing these messages directly, rather than through VistaHeads' filter. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) "subratalok" wrote in message ... i created a folder with no name by renaming a folder to(alt + 0160) but after that i m not able to delete , move or rename that folder...... plzz. suggest how can i delete it????????? i can open the folder and also others items can be moved or copied into that folder.... but this no name folder cannot be deleted!!!!!!!! -- subratalok Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
THANX MAN....... your method worked , but that folder get deleted after renaming it by your method....(i.e, after dir/x . ........ ren 0A00~1 ...) -- subratalok Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
Hi, subratalok.
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback. But you did not rename that folder to 0A00~1. It had that name all the time. RAM and disk space are so cheap now that we forget that it was precious not so long ago. When floppy disks held only 67.5 KB, MS-DOS reserved only 8 bytes for the filename, plus 3 for an extension to indicate the type of file. Only UPPERCASE alphabetic characters were allowed, plus numerals and a few special characters, such as punctuation. The punctuation was limited, too; we could use the period only to separate the extension (if any) from the filename, not as a character in the filename, and spaces were not allowed. These rules may seem archaic and arbitrary now, but they were required then to deal with the hardware of the time. My memory is hazy on this (There are plenty of folks here who can correct me!), but I think it was not until MS-DOS 6.x that Long File Names (LFN) were allowed. The file systems (FAT and NTFS) still created and used the 8.3 SFN; they just showed the LFN for use by us humans. And, basically, they still do. So, Dir /x shows us the SFN for any file or folder that has an LFN. "Long" is a slight misnomer, because even a one-character filename is an LFN if it is not a valid SFN - such as your invisible Alt+0160 (no-break space) character. So the system creates the SFN immediately for its own use but does not show it to us unless we ask for it with the /x switch for Dir. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) "subratalok" wrote in message ... THANX MAN....... your method worked , but that folder get deleted after renaming it by your method....(i.e, after dir/x . ........ ren 0A00~1 ...) -- subratalok Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
Hi,
i had followed all your steps and manage to see the 0A00~1 name for the folder with no name... however with i tried to rd 0A00~1, it says access denied.. could you kindly advise me what is the next time that i should do as i had already tried taking ownership of the folder but access is still denied... thank you |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
use the Software name unlocker to delete that folder. Install the unlocker software and then right click on the folder you will find an unlocker icon on right click. click on it. it will ask for an action . just give the action delete and the folder will be deleted. -- donbaba |
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how to delete a folder with no name??
use the Software name unlocker to delete that folder. Install the unlocker software and then right click on the folder you will find an unlocker icon on right click. click on it. it will ask for an action . just give the action delete and the folder will be deleted. -- donbaba |
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