undeletable file

[gneuner]

Hi all,

I am rescuing files from the drive of a Windows computer that died.
Unfortunately the old drive was PATA and the new computer is SATA so I
borrowed a USB drive housing and copied the whole "Documents and
Settings" directory from the old drive to the C: drive on the new
computer. But now that I've rescued files, I can't delete the
directories.

The offending file is:

C:\Documents and Settings\Kathy\Desktop\rescued\Documents and Settings
\Kathy\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\RH8ZMR9M
\l.yimg.com\cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\ver\242\embed-2007-08-28-1213\swf
\yup_embed_module.swf\testmo~1.sol

I can see the .SOL file in explorer and in a directory listing from
the command line, but I can't open, move or delete it. The file is
341 bytes long, but has no properties in explorer ... right-clicking
on it shows only options to "open with..." or "send to". Trying to
open the .SOL file with a hex editor gives me an "invalid name"
error. Trying to delete the surrounding "yup_embed_module.swf"
directory gives me an "access denied" error.

I'm on XPpro SP3 using simple sharing. The old computer was SP2 and
had user security on, but I (thought I) removed all the security on
the rescued files by copying/restoring through ntbackup.

I've unsuccessfully tried deleting using the UNC name and the
"MoveOnBoot" utility.

Any other thoughts?
George

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

Hi all,

I am rescuing files from the drive of a Windows computer that died.
Unfortunately the old drive was PATA and the new computer is SATA so I
borrowed a USB drive housing and copied the whole "Documents and
Settings" directory from the old drive to the C: drive on the new
computer.  But now that I've rescued files, I can't delete the
directories.

The offending file is:

C:\Documents and Settings\Kathy\Desktop\rescued\Documents and Settings
\Kathy\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\RH8ZMR9M
\l.yimg.com\cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\ver\242\embed-2007-08-28-1213\swf
\yup_embed_module.swf\testmo~1.sol

I can see the .SOL file in explorer and in a directory listing from
the command line, but I can't open, move or delete it.  The file is
341 bytes long, but has no properties in explorer ... right-clicking
on it shows only options to "open with..." or "send to".  Trying to
open the .SOL file with a hex editor gives me an "invalid name"
error.  Trying to delete the surrounding "yup_embed_module.swf"
directory gives me an "access denied" error.

I'm on XPpro SP3 using simple sharing.  The old computer was SP2 and
had user security on, but I (thought I) removed all the security on
the rescued files by copying/restoring through ntbackup.

I've unsuccessfully tried deleting using the UNC name and the
"MoveOnBoot" utility.

Any other thoughts?
George

DelinvFile worked for me, even when "MoveOnBoot" wouldn't.

http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/

Good Luck.

 

[gneuner]

http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/

Worked great! Interestingly, it didn't flag the file as having an
invalid name, but it deleted it.

Thanks.
George

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

Worked great!   Interestingly, it didn't flag the file as having an
invalid name, but it deleted it.

Thanks.
George

Glad you got it sorted, and thanks for letting us know.

Good Luck.