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You may need to go to My Computer>Tools>Folder Options and uncheck "Use simple file sharing" first.
Then go to Security>Advanced>Owner as I descibed above, and it will show the current owner. In the "Change owner to" list select the Administrator account, check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects", then click OK. Hopefully you'll then be able to delete the folder.
I couldn't tell anything under Dos...What am I looking for here? Folder has no contents or name. It's just a big mystery.
Could it be something left behind when I combined my partitions into one using Partition Expert:confused:
Does the folder display a size?
Have you tried moving everything else in that directory to a safe place, and delete the directory that the folder is in?
(Hope it is not on a root drive.....)
M
I found another forum that may have the answer to this delimma:
http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread....779/qid/679065
Here is the solution posted there by bheavy11:
open a command window and do this
If NT Win2000 or XP Open a CMD.EXE window. If Win9x-ME open COMMAND.COM.
CD to your directory.
Use: DIR /X /A to see the SHORT FILE NAMES of the files and directories there.
use:
RMDIR [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/Q] [drive:]path
/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory
tree.
/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S
~~~~~~~~
Hope this helps
John
What am I supposed to read from this:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Bob>dir /x /a
Volume in drive C is Kick Ass Drive
Volume Serial Number is F833-7C0A
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Bob
11/14/2003 09:53 AM <DIR> .
11/14/2003 09:53 AM <DIR> ..
09/19/2003 06:52 AM <DIR> APPLIC~1 Application Data
11/14/2003 09:53 AM <DIR> Cookies
11/13/2003 08:30 AM <DIR> Desktop
11/04/2003 06:49 AM <DIR> FAVORI~1 Favorites
10/19/2002 07:50 AM <DIR> LOCALS~1 Local Settings
11/13/2003 02:45 PM <DIR> MYDOCU~1 My Documents
08/11/2003 04:07 PM <DIR> NetHood
11/14/2003 09:12 AM 5,242,880 ntuser.dat
11/14/2003 09:58 AM 1,024 NTUSER~1.LOG NTUSER.DAT.LOG
11/13/2003 08:03 PM 280 ntuser.ini
10/19/2002 07:50 AM <DIR> PRINTH~1 PrintHood
11/14/2003 09:57 AM <DIR> Recent
09/05/2003 10:14 PM <DIR> SendTo
10/07/2003 07:04 AM <DIR> STARTM~1 Start Menu
10/19/2002 12:00 PM <DIR> TEMPLA~1 Templates
10/19/2002 12:23 PM <DIR> UserData
10/19/2002 10:33 PM <DIR> WINDOWS
11/12/2003 05:03 PM 207,473 ~
4 File(s) 5,451,657 bytes
16 Dir(s) 99,991,736,320 bytes free
C:\Documents and Settings\Bob>dir /x /a
bojovan:
To reiterate my prior posting...
Can you show us a screen shot of the directory you are referring to? Apparently you can "see" this folder in your Windows Explorer, even though you aren't seeing it via "dos".
If you will post a screen image that we can see, I'll try to comment further! ;)
If your folder is in the root directory of c: go to c:\
(cd \) and give a listing from there. ( dir /a )
My guess is that the name has an extented ascii code which can't be displayed.
Maybe dos will display the name.
Windows (and dos) won't let you create a folder without a name.
I need help making a screen shot. I have tried without any success.:confused:
You can make a screen shot with Alt-Print Screen
right-click and paste it here
bojovan:
Make sure that the window you are viewing is the "active" window. Then do ALT-PrintScrn; this will put the image of ONLY the active window on your clipboard. You can then pull up WordPad or any other wp or image processor, paste the image into it, and save to a file (use .jpg or .jpeg file type).
You may then "insert" this file into a reply for us to see.
And, forgive me if there is an easier way to get an image into VirtualDr... there probably is but I don't know about it.
This should work, however. ;)
Hope you can get the screen shot to post...
Are you referring to a file who's name is just a ~ sign?
If so, here is the answer...
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...hreadid=137489
FOund one more thing that may help...
Microsoft Knowledge Base article. Found it as a reply to a similar problem on the forum.... Not sure who to give the credit to....
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;320081
I tried without any success. Must be doing something wrong:confused:Quote:
Originally posted by shiva_42
bojovan:
Make sure that the window you are viewing is the "active" window. Then do ALT-PrintScrn; this will put the image of ONLY the active window on your clipboard. You can then pull up WordPad or any other wp or image processor, paste the image into it, and save to a file (use .jpg or .jpeg file type).
You may then "insert" this file into a reply for us to see.
And, forgive me if there is an easier way to get an image into VirtualDr... there probably is but I don't know about it.
This should work, however. ;)
OK, i have fount this, that may or may not get rid of it
Remove Empty Folder
scroll down to "Remove Empty Folder RMEmpty and download.
I have not tried it so i dont know if it will work.
:)
I got it now how do I use it:confused:Quote:
Originally posted by P3-450
OK, i have fount this, that may or may not get rid of it
Remove Empty Folder
scroll down to "Remove Empty Folder RMEmpty and download.
I have not tried it so i dont know if it will work.
:)