Out of curiosity, I attempted to compress my undeleted files into a
.zip. This made them disappear. I do not believe that this would be
successful in all occasions, but merely another addition to the great
world of troubleshooting.


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Out of curiosity, I attempted to compress my undeleted files into a
zip. This made them disappear. I do not believe that this would be
successful in all occasions, but merely another addition to the great
world of troubleshooting.



To whom are you talking? Please quote the post you are replying to.
Thank you.

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Praetorian;1117122 Wrote:
Out of curiosity, I attempted to compress my undeleted files into a
.zip. This made them disappear. I do not believe that this would be
successful in all occasions, but merely another addition to the great
world of troubleshooting.



Worked for me too. Thanks!


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Thanks Vman (and et al), I had the same problem on my system and the fix
you described below worked beautifully!

Vman;868570 Wrote:
Thanks to some more Google-searching and ThePrutser on techguy.org, I
followed his instructions and it worked.

* goto "Start", "Run" (if you don't see run press the Windows Key + R)
* Type in "cmd" en press "ok". a command prompt will open.
* Goto the drive where the undeletable folder resides for example D:
* So you will have type in D: enter
goto the folder where the problem folder is located, in my case it was
located in
D:\_cache\delete\
the folder i could not delete was called "happy tree friends"
(d:\_cache\delete\happy tree friend) so i typed:
D:enter
cd _cacheenter
cd deleteenter (As you can see I don't open the problem folder
itself)
* type: dir /xenter. A directory listing will appear containing the
8.3 names of the folders and files, in my case it showed: happyt~1
* then type: rd happyt~1enter (replace happyt~1 with the folder name
you see)
The folder will be deleted.

I used "del" instead of "rd" for single files and it worked! Thanks for
the help, ThePrutser and DecHex


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UberAugie wrote:


Thanks Vman (and et al), I had the same problem on my system and the fix
you described below worked beautifully!

"Vman (and et al)" left the room A YEAR AGO JUNE.

Addison Steele;1521374 Wrote:
UberAugie UberAugie.3vwfg3@no-
"Vman (and et al)" left the room A YEAR AGO JUNE.

No worries, still sending out some kudos as appreciation.


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Vman;865803 Wrote:
Hey everybody,
this is the second time I can't delete a 0 kb file off my desktop.
Vista tells me that it doesn't exist, but it's there on my desktop.
I've tried several things, restarting, deleting in safe mode, deleting
via cmd (as administrator), deleting as another user and lots more.
And unfortunately Unlocker doesn't support Vista 64.

Last time it happened I successfully deleted it in the cmd, but this
time it simply won't.

I wanted to try to take ownership, but I don't know how to write space
in the file name (when deleting I use "", but it can't do so when
taking
ownership).

What do I do?


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THIS WORKS!

1) Open up Command Prompt (CMD)

2)type in cd then the location of the file (in my case
c:\users\james\desktop)

3)type in dir /x

4)Next to the file you want to delete it will say the files 8.3 name
(ex. FILENA~1)

5)type del then the files 8.3 name (ex. FILENA~1)

HOPE THIS HELPS... (it did for me... it removed all the hate from me
and my computers love hate relationship)


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