Cannot delete file

freebooter · 10 Nov 2007 at 19:39

I was just syncing a folder to an external drive but the operation failed with a message along the lines of "cannot delete file, cannot read from source device".

I have found the file. It is a 0 byte file with an odd name on its own in a folder. I cannot delete it with any method so far.

Any suggestions short of formatting the drive?

thanks

Beans on toast Dave · 10 Nov 2007 at 19:41

search for file unlocker

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ this?

Duke · 10 Nov 2007 at 19:59

challengedavid said:
search for file unlocker

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freebooter · 10 Nov 2007 at 22:54

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work. I think it was a badly corrupt file. I managed to get rid of it by running check disk with fix errors.

MarcLister · 10 Nov 2007 at 22:56

Unlocker is brilliant.

Sometimes using the cmd prompt from Start>Run works. Some stubborn files in Windows just can't resist the cmd prompt when I want to delete something.