Guru stumper?

[moke]

I am stumped on this one. I originally created a Mouse folder on C drive and later to test a batch file I am writing I deleted the Mouse folder from C drive. That seemed to go ok. Now though when I try to create a new Mouse folder on C I am told the folder already exists. I guess it does but it does not show up in Explorer! Refreshing C doesn't make it appear. (I have show all files selected in Explorer.) A "Find" for Mouse on C drive reports the folder as being present. A power off restart made no difference. Booting with a floppy and doing a dir of C shows a Mouse folder. I have Dosshell installed and opening it to C drive shows no Mouse folder but I cannot create a Mouse folder in Dosshell either. Trying to copy a file to the phantom Mouse folder brings up a message "Do you want to overwrite the Mouse folder" and saying yes and returning to Explorer still shows no Mouse folder nor do I find anywhere on C drive the file I tried to copy to the Mouse folder.

Does anyone have an idea of what is going on?

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[techno_freak]

have you tried viewing it in safe mode? if you try to delete it in safe mode it may cure the problem. I've had a similar problem but i don't remember exactly what i had to do to fix it.
mike

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Mike,
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[moke]

Thanks tf but RMBox E'd me an answer that worked so I never tried your suggestion.

RM suggested booting to the C prompt and using deltree..

C:\>deltree C:\mouse.*

I used..

C:\>deltree C:\mouse and it worked!

I had never thought of using deltree and I frankly blew the .* part of the command but as I said it worked anyway???

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