undeletable file

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I have a .txt file in someones profile that I can't delete. If you right click and select delete you get no message at all! Tried the cmd prompt, didn't work. If you double click it, it opens in notepad but is empty and the title bar says 'untitled'. If you right click properties the message 'Attributes unavailable' appears. The filename is very long but it won't let me rename it either. Any one got any ideas..thanks.
 
Have you tried going into safe mode and then deleting the
file?
-----Original Message-----
I have a .txt file in someones profile that I can't
delete. If you right click and select delete you get no
message at all! Tried the cmd prompt, didn't work. If you
double click it, it opens in notepad but is empty and the
title bar says 'untitled'. If you right click properties
the message 'Attributes unavailable' appears. The filename
is very long but it won't let me rename it either. Any one
got any ideas..thanks.
 
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From: =?Utf-8?B?UGF1bCBT?= <[email protected]>
Subject: undeletable file
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 23:51:02 -0700

I have a .txt file in someones profile that I can't delete. If you right
click and select delete you get no message at all! Tried the cmd prompt,
didn't work. If you double click it, it opens in notepad but is empty and
the title bar says 'untitled'. If you right click properties the message
'Attributes unavailable' appears. The filename is very long but it won't
let me rename it either. Any one got any ideas..thanks.---------------------

You should be able to do what you need to from the CMD prompt. Windows
Explorer has trouble dealing with large file/path names (I think that 255
characters is the limit, though I can't find an article right now to
support that)


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