How delete a file with an asterisk in the filename?

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The filename is "dbb~4*.jpg" and I can´t delete it on a Win2000
Server.
The file comes from a MAC.
Any idea how to get rid of it?

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Try renaming it and deleting it, or mount the volume from a Mac and delete
it from there.

~Dan

"Thomas Podlesak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The filename is "dbb~4*.jpg" and I can´t delete it on a Win2000
> Server.
> The file comes from a MAC.
> Any idea how to get rid of it?

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Did you try :

"del dbb~4?.jpg"

Gary

"Thomas Podlesak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The filename is "dbb~4*.jpg" and I can´t delete it on a Win2000
> Server.
> The file comes from a MAC.
> Any idea how to get rid of it?

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Thomas...

Looks like you have been given some good ideas already. Here is a KB
written for XP. The same rules apply ...

315226 How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows XP
http://kb/article.asp?id=Q315226

Britten Martin [MSFT]
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