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Cannot delete file in Windows Explorer

 
 
Pete
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      13th Nov 2003
Someone hacked me and created folders under one of my web
folder and loaded it with hundreds of megs of stuff. Now
I am trying to delete my webfolder and it will not let me
because it has 4 directories underneath and says the
folder is not empty. If I try to delete the 4 folders it
says it cannot read from the source file or disk. I have
tried everything I know or could come up with from the
knowlege base.

 
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      17th Nov 2003
try this from a command prompt:
del \\.\c:\path\file
or
del \\?\c:\path\file

If lots of rubbish in there, replace the "del" with "rd /s/q" to recursively
del subdirs.

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"Pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Someone hacked me and created folders under one of my web
> folder and loaded it with hundreds of megs of stuff. Now
> I am trying to delete my webfolder and it will not let me
> because it has 4 directories underneath and says the
> folder is not empty. If I try to delete the 4 folders it
> says it cannot read from the source file or disk. I have
> tried everything I know or could come up with from the
> knowlege base.
>




 
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