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[LonWar]

Hello, I seem to have a system glitch and I have a file that got corrupt that I can not delete, When I try I get a message saying:

Cannot delete [File name] : Cannot find specified file...


Any idea's how to get rid of it?

Thanks,

[JimH]

Did you try a wildcard delete: del badfil*.* ?

Rename?

[GHammer]

Is it in another language, shows up like ???.doc
If so, drag it (move) to the desktop and it'll delete.

If not, then open a command prompt in that folder and DEL the file. Remember you have to use 'if the file name.txt' has spaces in it.

[lalittle]

I ran into this a while back, and if memory serves I ended up using the deltree command from a DOS prompt to finally delete it.  The problem is that the deltree command deletes the entire directory that the file is in (and all it's subdirectories), so you have to move any files you want to keep to another directory first.

If there are files you want to keep in this folder, move them all to another folder first, than delete the folder containing the problem file from a DOS prompt using deltree.  You can now go back to Windows Explorer and rename the temp folder to the previous name, which puts everything back to the way it should be.  I'd run a scandisk (or chkdsk) afterwards just to be safe.

I'm "fairly" sure that this is how I finally solved this issue.  Good luck.

Larry

[Mastiff]

That will of course be a problem if the file is in the root directory...   I have done it a few times with boot diskettes.