Dom Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Im trying to delete a folder, but... windows tells me that the file inside the folder, does not exist, and i cant delete the folder, and its annoying me... any help? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitedragon Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 It happens, sometimes. Restart your computer & try again. Chances are some porgram or service is reporting the folder in use and won't let Windows delete it. A restart seems to always work for me! :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConfusedFusion Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 tried booting through command promt and giving a dos command????? if u do that, make sure you attibe all the files to -s -h - r then delete files and rd the dir. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 either restart and delete. or bring up commandprompt, kill explorer.exe, delete the folder, restart explorer.exe Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrybrit Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Terminate the Explorer.exe task through Task Manager. Then, from Task Manager, run cmd. From there you can safely delete the folder. Then restart Explorer.exe. File handles are broken on XP. :crazy: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted December 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 17, 2004 Restart into Safemode. Delete the folder from there. That may do the trick. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 I cant boot into safe mode for some reason (pc fault anyways), when i try the CMD thingy killing explorer, it gives me the same reason that the file inside the folder cant be found, Cant be found, not that its in use Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted December 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted December 17, 2004 Ummm... That's going to be hard. Try downloading some third-party program that remove these folders or something (if there is one). The folder's evidently corrupt, it's going to be hard to get rid of. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalSnow Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Try HijackThis using the delete file on restart option under the tools section: hijackthis.zip Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585117889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 (edited) Thx digitalsnow gotta try this now Edit: Stupid file still there :( Edited December 17, 2004 by TheWinter Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585118014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soypowered Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Just hide it (right click, properties, hidden...) I had the exact same prob. I hid it, I forgot about it, and about 6 months later I remembered about it and I deleted it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585118922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Posted December 18, 2004 Author Share Posted December 18, 2004 Cant, i got my PC to show all files, since i like to have power over all my files (except this one that aint following my orders! :p) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585119366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dom Posted December 18, 2004 Author Share Posted December 18, 2004 Bump? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/258549-cant-delete-a-folder/#findComment-585122472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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