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Cannot delete file..Zero Bytes?
Hello, I have a file on my desktop named Fitzgerald -. I do not know where it came from. This is no surprise given that my daughter uses the PC under my login from time to time. The file size is 0 bytes. The properties security tab says "The requested security information is either unavailable or cannot be displayed". The attributes info is "A" (don't know what that means). I can move the desktop icon around the screen but I cannot trash it by any means found online. When I try to throw it in the trash, the error message says "Could not find this item". Under this message it reads "This is no longer located in C:\...\Desktop\Fitzgerald -. Verify the item's location and try again." Vista Home Premium 32bit. Any ideas? -- cohack11 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Cannot delete file..Zero Bytes?
"cohack11" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a file on my desktop named Fitzgerald -. I do not know where it came from. This is no surprise given that my daughter uses the PC under my login from time to time. The file size is 0 bytes. The properties security tab says "The requested security information is either unavailable or cannot be displayed". The attributes info is "A" (don't know what that means). I can move the desktop icon around the screen but I cannot trash it by any means found online. When I try to throw it in the trash, the error message says "Could not find this item". Under this message it reads "This is no longer located in C:\...\Desktop\Fitzgerald -. Verify the item's location and try again." Vista Home Premium 32bit. Any ideas? -- cohack11 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com Posted by R.C White to answer a very similar question in another place and time but in this galaxy and close by. ---------------- Open a Command Prompt and use the old DOS command "Dir", from days before Directories were Folders. Type "DIR /?" to see a mini-Help file with a list of switches and parameters that can be used with the Dir command. Navigate to the directory where your zero-byte file is. Then type "Dir" to see a list of all the files and folders there, including your mystery file. You can use Dir /os to "order" them by size; any zero-byte file should be at the top. (If the list is too long, you can use Dir /o-s to put the zero-byte file at the bottom of the listing.) Then use Dir /x to produce the list with an extra column before the filenames. See if your zero-byte file has a name that includes characters that are not allowed in an 8.3 filename. If so, use that "short" filename with the Del command to delete that file. If all else fails, create a new folder and move everything EXCEPT the zero-balance file to the new folder. Then use the RD (Remove Directory) command with the /s switch to remove that entire directory tree, including all the files and folders left in it; there should be only the one file that you want to delete. Then you can rename your new folder to the original name, if you like. If these tricks don't work, post back with details. "Tried it" doesn't tell us much; neither does "Didn't work". We need step by step details of what you did and what you saw, including verbatim text of any error messages. ------------------------ Tom Ferguson |
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Cannot delete file..Zero Bytes?
Thank you! the "short" name solved it!
"Tom Ferguson" wrote: "cohack11" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a file on my desktop named Fitzgerald -. I do not know where it came from. This is no surprise given that my daughter uses the PC under my login from time to time. The file size is 0 bytes. The properties security tab says "The requested security information is either unavailable or cannot be displayed". The attributes info is "A" (don't know what that means). I can move the desktop icon around the screen but I cannot trash it by any means found online. When I try to throw it in the trash, the error message says "Could not find this item". Under this message it reads "This is no longer located in C:\...\Desktop\Fitzgerald -. Verify the item's location and try again." Vista Home Premium 32bit. Any ideas? -- cohack11 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com Posted by R.C White to answer a very similar question in another place and time but in this galaxy and close by. ---------------- Open a Command Prompt and use the old DOS command "Dir", from days before Directories were Folders. Type "DIR /?" to see a mini-Help file with a list of switches and parameters that can be used with the Dir command. Navigate to the directory where your zero-byte file is. Then type "Dir" to see a list of all the files and folders there, including your mystery file. You can use Dir /os to "order" them by size; any zero-byte file should be at the top. (If the list is too long, you can use Dir /o-s to put the zero-byte file at the bottom of the listing.) Then use Dir /x to produce the list with an extra column before the filenames. See if your zero-byte file has a name that includes characters that are not allowed in an 8.3 filename. If so, use that "short" filename with the Del command to delete that file. If all else fails, create a new folder and move everything EXCEPT the zero-balance file to the new folder. Then use the RD (Remove Directory) command with the /s switch to remove that entire directory tree, including all the files and folders left in it; there should be only the one file that you want to delete. Then you can rename your new folder to the original name, if you like. If these tricks don't work, post back with details. "Tried it" doesn't tell us much; neither does "Didn't work". We need step by step details of what you did and what you saw, including verbatim text of any error messages. ------------------------ Tom Ferguson |