Why can't I move or remove these files?

[joeu2004]

Under Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\<folder
name>, I found a couple files with extremely long names.
I could not move or remove those files. As I recall, Windows
complained about the length of the names. When I tried to
look at their Properties, Windows had another complaint -- I
think something to the effect that the properties could not be
found.

Eventually, those files did disappear. I might have succeeded
in removing the folder, then emptying the Recycle Bin. I do
not remember.

Can some MVP explain how such files could be created -- that
is, how Windows (through an application) can create a file that
it cannot access later -- and why I couldn't move or remove
those files?

I have "administrator" capability.

The existence of those files prevented me from deleting any of
the files selected with ctl-A (perhaps because those files were
first in the folder), and they interrupted copying an enclosing
folder (several steps removed) to another disk. I was just
lucky that I stumbled across the bogus files while I made every
effort to clean unwanted files in a desperate attempt to make
the folder copy work.

 

[sherwin de claro]

it could be a files used by trojan, etc.

actually the issue with long name is same with issue how deep a folder. if i
remember it right you can create nested folders upto 120 something then u
can still run application less one folder after that you can't anymore.


sherwin de claro