Hi, Search.
In an earlier post you gave the full pathname as:
C:\Users\ssddrive\Documents\Camtasia Studio\Untitlednorwich falkland
Are you the User known as "ssddrive", and are you signed on as such?
Are you trying to remove a FOLDER? Or a FILE? (Most of the same rules
apply to both, but "del" DELETES a FILE, but to REMOVE a directory (FOLDER),
you should use the "rd" command. In the Command Prompt window, type del /?
and rd /? to see the switches and parameters that you might need with each
of these commands.)
The complete filename (or foldername) apparently is "Untitlednorwich
falkland". Since the name is more than 8 characters long, it does not
qualify as a Short File Name (SFN), also known as an 8.3 filename, from
MSDOS days. Even if it were shorter, the space between the "h" and the "f"
is not allowed in an SFN. Therefore, Windows will consider it a Long File
Name (LFN) and create an SFN for it; that's the "UNTITL~3" that you see when
you use dir /x, as DanS suggested. To delete a file by that name, you would
type: dir UNTITL~3. To remove a folder, use rd UNTITL~3; if it is not
empty, you'll need to add the /s switch and answer Yes when it asks if you
are sure. The "3" in the SFN indicates that there must be - or have been -
other LFNs that also were converted to SFNs that started with "UNTITL",
probably other "Untitled..." folders or files, that became "UNTITL~1" and
"UNTITL~2". I wonder what happened to those?
If all else fails, you could move everything that you want to keep out of
that Studio folder to a temporary location, then use RD /s to Remove the
Studio folder - and ALL its contents - and then recreate the folder and move
everything back into it.
RC
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"DanS" wrote in message
ok ,, i have a folder in my documents ,, but i can not
delete, rename it, every time i try to do anything with it
I'm told that it no longer exists ,,
i have run scandisk, but that didn't work,,
any one know how i can get rid of it ??
command prompt in that folder, then: dir /x
and delete using 8.3 filename shown in the right-hand column ?
del xxxxxxxx.xxx
just tried it m8
no luck its still there ,,
something is telling win7 that it is there when it isnt, its also in the
comand window as "UNTITL~3"
