Cannot delete folders - Vista Home Premium

[XXX]

My friend has a Vista Home Premium (32bit) Dell desktop with SP2 installed - and
all other updates installed as of this moment in time.

A month or so ago he created 3 sub-folders in his Video folder. These are empty
and have not, as far as I am aware, been used.

When I say they are empty I mean there are no files inside. I have noticed that
there are some sub-folders, which are also empty

I am now trying to delete these folders (and sub-folders) - and each time I get
the msg "Cannot delete this folder - item cannot be found" - and the delete fails.

So far I have tried this with elevated rights to Admin, in Safe Mode, and using
the command prompt - all without success.

I have scanned the hard disk with MSEssentials - fully up to date, and found
nothing.

At the moment I am running CHKDSK to see if there an error on the disk - but
halfway through there are no reports of an error so far.

Has anyone experienced this before? Would appreciate all suggestions.

Thanks in advance.



Steve

 

[XXX]

Install a smart uninstaller like "Final Uninstaller" or "Wise Disk
Cleaner" or "Smarty Uninstaller" or "Perfect Uninstaller"...

Thanks 4 ur reply.

My problem is deleting folders in the User's profile (\users\fred\videos to be
specific). Its not an issue of a failed or incomplete uninstall.

These folders were originally created by the user.

Any ideas?


Steve

 

[Patrick Phillips]

Thanks 4 ur reply.

My problem is deleting folders in the User's profile (\users\fred\videos
to be specific). Its not an issue of a failed or incomplete uninstall.

These folders were originally created by the user.

Any ideas?

I'd say you need to be logged-in as the user who created the folders like
your fred example above in order to delete them.

 

[XXX]

I'd say you need to be logged-in as the user who created the folders like
your fred example above in order to delete them.

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Thanks Patrick.

I AM logged in as that user...that's why I am completely baffled by this!

Steve

 

[XXX]

My friend has a Vista Home Premium (32bit) Dell desktop with SP2
installed - and all other updates installed as of this moment in time.

A month or so ago he created 3 sub-folders in his Video folder. These
are empty and have not, as far as I am aware, been used.

When I say they are empty I mean there are no files inside. I have
noticed that there are some sub-folders, which are also empty

I am now trying to delete these folders (and sub-folders) - and each
time I get the msg "Cannot delete this folder - item cannot be found" -
and the delete fails.

So far I have tried this with elevated rights to Admin, in Safe Mode,
and using the command prompt - all without success.

I have scanned the hard disk with MSEssentials - fully up to date, and
found nothing.

At the moment I am running CHKDSK to see if there an error on the disk -
but halfway through there are no reports of an error so far.

Has anyone experienced this before? Would appreciate all suggestions.

Thanks in advance.



Steve

Thanks for all the replies. Problem solved by using Unlocker v1.8.8 to delete
the folders....brilliant bit of software!

 

[andrew]

it sounds to ma as though it is a ghost folder and is actually not there.
Have you tried to run a disk defragment to get rid of any delted files and
folders completely.