"The directory is not empty" error

[moquif]

Got a little problem. To save space on an aging hard drive array
zipped up a large directory of old files. When deleting the old file
some of them were apparently corrupt but vanished anyway after
moment. I passed it off as a glitch until I couldn't delete th
directories they were in. Other directors were removed normally an
regular computer operation continued. This is a server computer so
couldn't restart. I tried opening a DOS window and trying the r
{filename} /s but it told me something was corrupt.

Now what I figure happened is that a few fragments of the files wer
left behind and it's keeping me from deleting the folder. Thi
shouldn't be a big problem, at least I hope not.

Does this sound like a big problem or did I go about it wrong? Also
didn't get any drive space back when deleting the files. Why?

Thank yo


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moqui

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Got a little problem. To save space on an aging hard drive array I
zipped up a large directory of old files. When deleting the old files
some of them were apparently corrupt but vanished anyway after a
moment. I passed it off as a glitch until I couldn't delete the
directories they were in. Other directors were removed normally and
regular computer operation continued. This is a server computer so I
couldn't restart. I tried opening a DOS window and trying the rd
{filename} /s but it told me something was corrupt.

Now what I figure happened is that a few fragments of the files were
left behind and it's keeping me from deleting the folder. This
shouldn't be a big problem, at least I hope not.

Does this sound like a big problem or did I go about it wrong? Also I
didn't get any drive space back when deleting the files. Why?

Thank you

No idea.

Make sure you have a backup.
I would do a CHKDSK Drive: /F ,scheduled for next reboot.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com