Deleting a stubborn file
#1
Posted 30 April 2011 - 05:27 PM
I made tiles for a member here named Dogs. I saved it the first time in the wrong format by accident, and it's just a file. No extensions.
When I try to delete it, it tells me the file cannot be found. If I try to send it to a compressed ZIP or send it to the recycling in, it says it can't be found. I can't even rename it. Can someone please help?
#2
Posted 30 April 2011 - 07:11 PM
I made tiles for a member here named Dogs. I saved it the first time in the wrong format by accident, and it's just a file. No extensions.
When I try to delete it, it tells me the file cannot be found. If I try to send it to a compressed ZIP or send it to the recycling in, it says it can't be found. I can't even rename it. Can someone please help?
I've had this problem before, mostly with leftover files from Japanese program installations. :/ Here's something you might try:
1. Create a folder.
2. Drag the file into the empty new folder.
3. Delete the folder.
This MIGHT work. Obviously, you need to be able to move the file for this to work.
Another alternative: remove all other files from the folder where it resides, then delete that folder with the stubborn file within it. Then recreate the folder and move all the other files back into it. This may upset certain programs though, depending on whether anything is installed in that folder, so only try it as a last resort.
Obviously a file you can't delete is annoying, but is it causing any other problems by its presence?
#3
Posted 30 April 2011 - 09:17 PM
It's not doing anything but sitting there, taking up space worth 0 bytes :\
#5
Posted 30 April 2011 - 09:56 PM
*No guarantees this will work for you*
#6
Posted 01 May 2011 - 12:08 AM
#7
Posted 01 May 2011 - 12:16 AM
If not then what Fefe said has worked for me, the only problem is that it takes a very long time.
It was about 5-6 months before I finally deleted it. Does anybody know why this happens? (Not the stubborn file, I mean being able to delete it after a while)
#8
Posted 01 May 2011 - 12:28 AM
Try restarting your computer and trying again. This would be more likely to help if it thought the file was in use, but it's worth a try. If not then what Fefe said has worked for me, the only problem is that it takes a very long time.
I've had the file for a week or two now
#9
Posted 01 May 2011 - 12:36 AM
Let me know if you are able to use it, and if it takes care of your problem.
#10
Posted 01 May 2011 - 12:51 AM
#11
Posted 01 May 2011 - 01:05 AM
EDIT: Ok, I found it. TakeControlNow Yeah, I searched the wrong name before. Just be careful with it.
#12
Posted 01 May 2011 - 02:13 AM
#13
Posted 01 May 2011 - 02:35 AM
I think I remembered incorrectly before. What Dark Nation is suggesting sounds closer to the thing I tried that worked. Try it if you haven't.
#14
Posted 01 May 2011 - 11:32 AM
Hmm, well then that's not the program I meant to link to.... I'll look around again, and get the correct program. The one I meant to link to you, was one that can make it so that you can delete any file you want from your computer, even a System File. O_o I know, scary.
EDIT: Ok, I found it. TakeControlNow Yeah, I searched the wrong name before. Just be careful with it.
I got the program, went to the file, and tried to add it to that list to delete it. But guess what it says?
"Dogs" cannot be found!
#15
Posted 01 May 2011 - 12:21 PM
Can you use the program Angeal suggested to delete the folder? I don't know how it works, so I'm not sure.
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