cannot rename file cannot delete file.

[Guest]

I opened a FTP site to all, and had someone put a bunch of junk directories
on my ftp site.
When deleting, I get this error message:
"cannot rename file cannot delete file. Cannot read from the source disk."
I've exhaused all resources trying to delete this folder "tree".
Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Dave Patrick]

From a command prompt try;

del \\.\Drive:\directory\filename
(Note: the period between \\ and \)

Also

dir /x
and try deleting them using their 8.3 short names.

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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I opened a FTP site to all, and had someone put a bunch of junk directories
| on my ftp site.
| When deleting, I get this error message:
| "cannot rename file cannot delete file. Cannot read from the source disk."
| I've exhaused all resources trying to delete this folder "tree".
| Anyone have any suggestions?
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| David M. Hansberry

 

[Guest]

It's a folder I'm trying to delete. No files, just a bunch of sub directories.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Makes no difference.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| It's a folder I'm trying to delete. No files, just a bunch of sub
directories.

 

[Crouchie1998]

What attributes are on the folders? Can't you right-click & change them?

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

 

[Guest]

I can change it, but when it tries to change the folders within, it says it
can't find them. They are named junk. Like ":[[bigmac scan]];"

 

[Andrew Morton]

I opened a FTP site to all, and had someone put a bunch of junk
directories on my ftp site.
When deleting, I get this error message:
"cannot rename file cannot delete file. Cannot read from the source
disk." I've exhaused all resources trying to delete this folder
"tree".
Anyone have any suggestions?

Can you ftp into it and delete them through that?

Andrew

 

[Guest]

No, It won't delete. I've moved the folder out of the ftp site, and onto the
desktop of the server. It will move, but that's the only thing I can do with
it. It's having problems "finding" the folders to delete. I can rename the
top folder, but that's it. I can browse the folders in it (that are all junk
names...) but can't rename any of them. When I try, it says "can't find the
file/folder". I'm thinking this is going to be a chkdsk issue of some sort...