Brute force deleter?

Macabre · 19 Nov 2006 at 20:49

Okay im wondering on this, because after I had to recover and re-install my OS again it leaves a full backup basically of my files prior to the recovery and new OS installation.

This folder is around 50GB big, I've been taking the things I wanted from it and then deleting the stuff I don't want, however there is some stuff that I can't seem to delete, when I hit delete it will say cannot delete "file name" cannot find the specified file etc.

Also another file that was left by bf2, I could never get rid of it before. The folder is called "omfg" :rolleyes:

its in the bf2 logo cache. Inside is a .file and when I hit delete it will say "Cannot delete the file: cannot read from the source file or disc."

Is there anyway to delete them? or do am I left with some big files using up harddrive space?

modo77 · 19 Nov 2006 at 20:52

Try sure delete

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,22393-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

Its got a couple of ways to remove files, so if the first doesn't work move on the the others

Or the files just may be locked:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml

Macabre · 19 Nov 2006 at 21:01

None working :mad:

. Not only that the file is 0kb big and I can't delete it wtf?

Macabre · 19 Nov 2006 at 21:34

Okay the unlocker tool seems to be very helpful in deleting files, however it does say when I delete these weird files that nothing was deleted then the file magically disapears :confused:

, meh as long as its deleted.

Anyway it was weird because when I hit properties on an empty folder it said 956MB yet there was nothing in there :confused:

, deleted that with the unlocker though.

Im wondering if I should delete the backup WINDOWS folder? No not the current Windows folder on my system lol, just in the backup from the recovery. Don't think I need it as I already have one.

modo77 · 19 Nov 2006 at 22:51

if its just a backup and you've got anything you may need off it, then yes delete it.

Macabre · 20 Nov 2006 at 00:13

modo77 said:
if its just a backup and you've got anything you may need off it, then yes delete it.

Well I couldn't get rid of 2 files:

com8.exe and flash9.ocx

I don't need these as I already have them, so they are uneeded, I try to use the unlocker but it just says that it couldn't delete them and if I want to have them deleted by the next reboot, yes. But it still doesn't delete them after the re-boot.

Things change I've changed · 20 Nov 2006 at 00:23

Macabre said:
Well I couldn't get rid of 2 files:

com8.exe and flash9.ocx

I don't need these as I already have them, so they are uneeded, I try to use the unlocker but it just says that it couldn't delete them and if I want to have them deleted by the next reboot, yes. But it still doesn't delete them after the re-boot.

try this , http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html it's a free utility called 'move on boot' I've used this for years now and has never failed to remove a stubburn file