unable to delete file - says can't find

[Scott McDonald]

I've seen this quite a few times and I'm just finally sick of it and want to find out how to resolve this. You know when you get a temporary internet file that cannot be deleted because the system reports it cannot find the file your trying to delete. I've played with everything permissions/attributes wise on the file and it's parent folder to try to get the system to actually delete it and it will not do it. I know that if I was logged in as that user on the domain I could just clear temporary internet files in IE and that would probably work, but I cannot do this as that user is on another machine and has a roaming profile (so I would prefer to not alter their existing in use profile).

Anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks

 

[Bryan Martin]

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320081

Bryan Martin
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I've seen this quite a few times and I'm just finally sick of it and want to find out how to resolve this. You know when you get a temporary internet file that cannot be deleted because the system reports it cannot find the file your trying to delete. I've played with everything permissions/attributes wise on the file and it's parent folder to try to get the system to actually delete it and it will not do it. I know that if I was logged in as that user on the domain I could just clear temporary internet files in IE and that would probably work, but I cannot do this as that user is on another machine and has a roaming profile (so I would prefer to not alter their existing in use profile).

Anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks

 

[Rambler]

Probably because the file doesn't exist. The TIF index.dat will
contain a number of entries which are "orphaned", that is the
corresponding file doesn't exist. It's the reverse of orphaned files
where the file exists but doesn't have an entry in the index.dat. I
have a utility "CacheX for Internet Explorer" which cleans up the
index.dat and deletes orphaned files also, it's available on some
shareware sites (30-day trial I seem to remember). It'd have to be run
on the users machine though.