Cannot delete folder ?

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Andy100

I have a folder within a folder. The folder had music files in it. I deleted
the music files (put them onto CDR) and so i was left with 1 folder inside
another (no files in either folder).

When i tried to delete the folder (which had another empty folder in it)
WinXP said "Cannot delete 'music' the directory is not empty". It IS empty
(or appears to be). Even if it wasn't empty, i should still be able to
delete it if i chose to do so. I switched on 'view all system files', still
nothing in that folder. I rebooted into safe mode. Still couldn't delete it
(same error).

How can i get rid of it. It had 0 bytes in size so there shouldn't be any
reason why i cannot delete it. It's just annoying !!

Cheers
Andy
 
Hi Andy,

I have a folder within a folder. The folder had music files in it. I deleted
the music files (put them onto CDR) and so i was left with 1 folder inside
another (no files in either folder).

When i tried to delete the folder (which had another empty folder in it)
WinXP said "Cannot delete 'music' the directory is not empty". It IS empty
(or appears to be). Even if it wasn't empty, i should still be able to
delete it if i chose to do so. I switched on 'view all system files', still
nothing in that folder. I rebooted into safe mode. Still couldn't delete it
(same error).

How can i get rid of it. It had 0 bytes in size so there shouldn't be any
reason why i cannot delete it. It's just annoying !!

Cheers
Andy
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Open a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd)
navigate to the parent folder using the command cd, cd..

Open task manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del, go to the first tab
and kill explorer.exe

In the command prompt window, type

rd folder_name /s

Then open a new task in task manager --> Explorer.exe

Good luck
 
i carelessly downloaded some empty "jesus is vegetarian" folder I go
off of an ftp a few weeks ago ... and i couldn't get the stupid thin
off my system for anything. i found this forum and the rd folder_nam
/s command worked ... FINALLY. ... thanks alot ..
 
i'm having the same problem deleting a folder from a removable storag
device connected to my computer. i tried all of the stuff listed o
here and nothing is working. i have a 128mb device and one empty folde
on it and it's showing that it's about 75% full. does anyone have an
other idea's how i can delete this folder
 
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