Can't delete empty folder

[Valorie McLaughlin]

Can someone tell me how to get rid of an empty folder I can't delete? It
says I *need permission* but I'm the admin and that aggravating safety thing
in User Accounts is turned off anyway. Unlocker can't delete it either.
Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Dusko Savatovic]

Sometimes restarting in a safe mode helps.

Perhaps the folder it's not empty.
I usually use command prompt and

cd \folder
dir /ah /as

Then if something is with hidden or system attributes, just turn those
attribute off.

attrib -h -s -r somefile.ext

After that delete usually works.

 

[Andy Huang]

You should recycle it instead.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Click start, type CMD. Right click the entry that appears in the start menu,
choose 'run as administrator'. Click continue at the UAC prompt. From the
command line, type:

CD\<parent_directory>

RD /s /q <target_directory>

<parent_directory> should be the upper level folder housing the folder you
want to remove. <target_directory> would be the name of the folder you want
to remove.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Jim]

Can someone tell me how to get rid of an empty folder I can't delete? It
says I *need permission* but I'm the admin and that aggravating safety thing
in User Accounts is turned off anyway. Unlocker can't delete it either.
Thanks for any help you can give.

With Unlocker , tell it to delete at reboot ?

 

[Valorie McLaughlin]

With Unlocker , tell it to delete at reboot ?

This worked. Thank you for the suggestion.

To the others: I'm not familiar with the command prompt and have no idea
what a "parent directory" is but thank you also for your replies.

 

[Valorie McLaughlin]

You should recycle it instead.

That would not work. I would get the same *need permission* error. Unlocker
did it on reboot.

 

[Gordon's Psychiatrist]

So bring it to a local Dept of Environmental Protection.
Don't try to recycle toxic ahhsets yourself.
By the way, this is the gayest folder I ever seen

Are you into gay folders? What constitutes a gay folder? Do you have sex with them?

 

[Andy Huang]

So bring it to a local Dept of Environmental Protection.
Don't try to recycle toxic ahhsets yourself.
By the way, this is the gayest folder I ever seen

 

[Andy Huang]

A Gay folder is defined as a cheerful & blue one. As per 1950's definition.

 

[Gordon's Psychiatrist]

A Gay folder is defined as a cheerful & blue one. As per 1950's
definition.

I suggest you visit a Sheep farm.

 

[Jim]

This worked. Thank you for the suggestion.

To the others: I'm not familiar with the command prompt and have no idea
what a "parent directory" is but thank you also for your replies.

You`re welcome .

 

[Gordon's Psychiatrist]

There's a goat on Route9, New Jersey not far from Morganville.
My best friend for 2 years.

I am sure you are correct. Wear protection.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Here's what Valorie McLaughlin wrote on 9/11/09:

This worked. Thank you for the suggestion.

To the others: I'm not familiar with the command prompt and have no idea what
a "parent directory" is but thank you also for your replies.

Get a For Dummies or other beginners' book and learn a few things. If
you are subject to insomnia you will get an extra benefit from some of
those books

The above advice might not be suitable for you, of course, depending on
your needs and interests...if so you can safely (well, maybe not
*safely*) ignore it.

 

[Andy Huang]

There's a goat on Route9, New Jersey not far from Morganville.
My best friend for 2 years.

 

[+Bob+]

There's a goat on Route9, New Jersey not far from Morganville.
My best friend for 2 years.

Hey nit-wit. You STILL need to fix the time on your machine.

 

[Valorie McLaughlin]

Here's what Valorie McLaughlin wrote on 9/11/09:


Get a For Dummies or other beginners' book and learn a few things. If you
are subject to insomnia you will get an extra benefit from some of those
books

) I have the books for W98, WXP and Vista. As I recall there was very
little in there about the command prompt. Since I have no need of it, I
never learned much about it.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Here's what Valorie McLaughlin wrote on 9/12/09:

) I have the books for W98, WXP and Vista. As I recall there was very
little in there about the command prompt. Since I have no need of it, I
never learned much about it.

I also have "Windows Vista in a Nutshell" (by Preston Gralla, O'Reilly
Press), which is very oriented to the command prompt. OTOH, I have had
questions where I often - but not always - failed to find the answer
there :-(

Besides, it's not easy reading, IMHO.

I'm cheating, however. I have more than 30 years of experience in Unix
shells, DOS, and Windows command lines, inter alia, so I probably(!)
assume too much about others' interests.