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A friend sent a long a file (a .rar) he wanted me to check out for him before he installed it.
I downloaded it and unrared it with no problems, but it was full of .exe's instead of the intended contents (fonts) so I advised him to delete it immediately and not use.
I then proceeded to do the same, but the folder simply will not delete. Oddly the files went fine, and I never ran anything, but this is what I'm seeing:
Could not find this item
This is no longer located in C:\Users\This_User\Desktop. verify the item's
location and try again.
I've tried the following things with no help:
- Using "Unlocker" to Unlock and delete
- Using move on reboot and rebooting
- Using PendMoves (from sysinternals) and rebooting Elevating a cmd line, doing a dir /x to get the short name of the folder, and then del 'shortna~1'
- Moving the folder to a new folder and then trying to delete the parent folder
I'm on Windows 7 RTM, very fresh install. Any thoughts?
Update: Just to confirm, I've run Hijack this and half a dozen other malware detectors, and everything came back clean (no extra processes, no other obvious badness). Rebooting in safe mode didn't help either.
I had this exact problem (once in my life). I had to reboot in my linux and delete it from there. No matter what I did from Windows 10 it didn't worked. From Linux I could do a normal delete. – Heroselohim – 2016-02-14T00:58:36.513
This was the folder name: "the 100 subtitles" (located on desktop) and was already empty. When looking into the security tab about the folder It was not accesible. Hope this info helps. – Heroselohim – 2016-02-14T01:05:49.593
4Some part of the NTFS filesystem is damaged. I've had this issue. Never was able to fix it without a reformat. – Fake Name – 2010-06-30T05:39:26.203
I did everything on this site and more for hours and nothing worked. Finally Unlocker 1.9.2 after trying to find a lock and not finding one on my files offered to delete them and it succeeded. To future users, it's worth trying. Even if it didn't work for the OP. https://unlocker.en.softonic.com/
– user5389726598465 – 2017-09-27T03:07:42.410if you have this issue, try Cale's suggestion - worked for me.
– Mark Heath – 2011-05-31T19:27:11.283The problem here is that
del
doesn't work for folders. Correct syntax would berd shortna~1 /s
to remove the folder/subfolders/contents. – EKW – 2012-03-19T18:27:59.990