CANNOT DELETE (C) COPYRIGHT FILES IN ANONYMOUS FTP

[DLA]

I HAVE AND FTP SERVER WITH ANONYMOUS CONNECTION AND
SUDDENLY MANY FILES STARTED APEARING I TRIED DELETING THEM
AND THIS EROOR MESSAGE COMES UP CANNOT DELETE (C)
COPYRIGHT XXX.XXX:CANNOT FIND THE SPECIFIED FILE MAKE SURE
YOU SPECIFIED THE CORRECT PATH AND FILE NAME.

ALSO I CAN NOT VIEW WHAT IS TAKING 3.6 GIG OF SPACE IN
THIS FOLDER.

ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

 

[Richard McCall [MSFT]]

Use this article to remove the files. You may have to Stop FTP.
120716 How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=120716

 

[Jeremy Winston]

I HAVE AND FTP SERVER WITH ANONYMOUS CONNECTION AND
SUDDENLY MANY FILES STARTED APEARING I TRIED DELETING THEM
AND THIS EROOR MESSAGE COMES UP CANNOT DELETE (C)
COPYRIGHT XXX.XXX:CANNOT FIND THE SPECIFIED FILE MAKE SURE
YOU SPECIFIED THE CORRECT PATH AND FILE NAME.

ALSO I CAN NOT VIEW WHAT IS TAKING 3.6 GIG OF SPACE IN
THIS FOLDER.

ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

Turn off ALL CAPS; it's annoying & doesn't help your cause.

What ftp service are you using? What version?
What SP level on W2K?

Random thoughts:
1. Shut down the ftp service.
2. Open a command prompt, and change dir to the one that
contains the "(C)..." files you can't delete. Move any
legit files somewhere else. Enter
del /s /f *.*
3. Enter
dir /ah
and
dir /ad
to see if there are any hidden files/folders. Take ownership
of them (if any). Repeat step 2.

-Jeremy

 

[dcdon]

What is the folder name?
--

good computing,
don
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I HAVE AND FTP SERVER WITH ANONYMOUS CONNECTION AND
SUDDENLY MANY FILES STARTED APEARING I TRIED
DELETING THEM
AND THIS EROOR MESSAGE COMES UP CANNOT DELETE (C)
COPYRIGHT XXX.XXX:CANNOT FIND THE SPECIFIED FILE
MAKE SURE
YOU SPECIFIED THE CORRECT PATH AND FILE NAME.

ALSO I CAN NOT VIEW WHAT IS TAKING 3.6 GIG OF SPACE
IN
THIS FOLDER.

ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

 

[DLA]

THANK YOU FOR YOU HELP, I DID IT THE ONLY THING IS THAT
THE FOLDERS SHOW WHEN I DO DIR /AD AND WANT TO KNOW HOW DO
I TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THESE FOLDERS TO ERASE THEM.

THANK YOU

 

[Jeremy Winston]

THANK YOU FOR YOU HELP, I DID IT THE ONLY THING IS THAT
THE FOLDERS SHOW WHEN I DO DIR /AD AND WANT TO KNOW HOW DO
I TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THESE FOLDERS TO ERASE THEM.

What part of "Turn off ALL CAPS" did you not understand?

-Jeremy


PS. Download XCACLS from MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/xcacls-o.asp
Install it, and learn how to use it. (Enter "XCACLS /?" at a cmd prompt.)
Hint: the /G option with the 'O' spec should be of interest.

 

[DLA]

i understand that what i do not know how to do is to take
ownership of the folders that show after dir/ ad

-----Original Message-----


What part of "Turn off ALL CAPS" did you not understand?

-Jeremy


PS. Download XCACLS from MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/
existing/xcacls-o.asp
Install it, and learn how to use it.

(Enter "XCACLS /?" at a cmd prompt.)

 

[Jeremy Winston]

i understand that what i do not know how to do is to take
ownership of the folders that show after dir/ ad

See the postscript of my previous post, repeated here for
your convenience:

-----Original Message-----
[...]
-Jeremy

PS. Download XCACLS from MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/xcacls-o.asp
Install it, and learn how to use it. (Enter "XCACLS /?" at a cmd prompt.)
Hint: the /G option with the 'O' spec should be of interest.

XCACLS dir_name /T /E /C /G YourUserID:O