I am having a problem with deleting files that are deeply nested with the dir
structure for our RIS server. I think it has to do with the max lenght for a
file name of path. Is there any way to delete these without having to
re-format the RAID set to clean things up. We have several images now that
we cannot delete. I have tried taking ownership, re-permissioning, and even
overwriteing the file but they will just not delete. Any help would be
appreciated. As an example here is the path for one of the files I cant
delete:
D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\Tech114_Dell_OptiplexGX270\i386\Mirror1\UserData\Documents
and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
MX
2004\en\Configuration\Classes\mx\controls\streamingmedia\behaviors\namedframecuepointlistener.as

I found how to get around the problem use the RD command. I guess it ignores
the long filename path and just deletes it, which is fine with me. but the
command would be: rd folder /s


"JayH" wrote:

> I am having a problem with deleting files that are deeply nested with the dir
> structure for our RIS server. I think it has to do with the max lenght for a
> file name of path. Is there any way to delete these without having to
> re-format the RAID set to clean things up. We have several images now that
> we cannot delete. I have tried taking ownership, re-permissioning, and even
> overwriteing the file but they will just not delete. Any help would be
> appreciated. As an example here is the path for one of the files I cant
> delete:
> D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\Tech114_Dell_OptiplexGX270\i386\Mirror1\UserData\Documents
> and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
> MX
> 2004\en\Configuration\Classes\mx\controls\streamingmedia\behaviors\namedframecuepointlistener.as
>
>
>

Jay

See if this MS Knowledge Base article can help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=180410

Best regards

Bjorn
--
Bjorn Landemoo - (E-Mail Removed) - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)

"JayH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am having a problem with deleting files that are deeply nested with the dir
>structure for our RIS server. I think it has to do with the max lenght for a
>file name of path. Is there any way to delete these without having to
>re-format the RAID set to clean things up. We have several images now that
>we cannot delete. I have tried taking ownership, re-permissioning, and even
>overwriteing the file but they will just not delete. Any help would be
>appreciated. As an example here is the path for one of the files I cant
>delete:
>D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\Tech114_Dell_OptiplexGX270\i386\Mirror1\UserData\Documents
>and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
>MX
>2004\en\Configuration\Classes\mx\controls\streamingmedia\behaviors\namedframecuepointlistener.as
>
>