Deleting files too big for filesystem?!

LeperousDust · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:29

Right slight accident and got stuck in a loop and made lots of folders populating each other. I'm not sure how far it goes (hundreds i guess before i managed to kill the process). But now i'm stuck with folders i can't delete. I get errors about being too big for the file system telling me to move them to other folders... Every time i try and move them i bluescreen, and when i delete them it moans they disappear but reappear after a refresh. Tried from the cmd prompt too, that looks like its deleted them too but still hasn't.

Any ideas?

oldbag · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:37

Hrm. Maybe you could use 'subst' to map a virtual drive letter a few levels deep and run deltree /y *.* (command prompt)* to remove the dirs.

*run deltree /y *.* from the command prompt when inside the directory!

LeperousDust · 11 Feb 2008 at 15:20

Triad2000 said:
Hrm. Maybe you could use 'subst' to map a virtual drive letter a few levels deep and run deltree /y *.* (command prompt)* to remove the dirs.

*run deltree /y *.* from the command prompt when inside the directory!

Any easier ways?

I can't be bothered traversing literally hundreds of dirrectories with dos commands :eek:

I'll see what i can play around with in a bit. I was thinking of booting into a linux Live CD environment and seeing what i can do from within there...

bledd · 11 Feb 2008 at 15:22

browse it with 7zip file manager, it can handle really really deep files & folders, and can delete them

plus it's free

LeperousDust · 11 Feb 2008 at 17:26

1 - 0 to linux i'm afraid, tried everything nothing was happening, i had a Hirens Boot CD lying around even managed horrid exceptions with that too... Tried my kubuntu liveCD but i can't find my way around the KDE environment, so back to windows, downloaded burned Ubuntu 7.10 and after it had loaded it deleted without even questioning anything, wonderful little OS

(So is Kubuntu i just don't know the programs within it - yes i could have used the CLI but why bother

).

Think while i'm booted into this CD i may install it again, forgotten how lightening fast it is (even from a CD :eek:

)...

bledd · 11 Feb 2008 at 18:34

did 7zip file manager do the trick?

everytime i suggest that it works for people, i think it can handle 512 directories

LeperousDust · 11 Feb 2008 at 19:27

It might have been more than 512 dirrectories, i gave up counting, there were so so many... How come 7zips file explorer works better than windows explorer anyway? :confused:

bledd · 11 Feb 2008 at 19:33

the writer just implemented it

just try it

oldbag · 11 Feb 2008 at 22:47

LeperousDust said:
Any easier ways? I can't be bothered traversing literally hundreds of dirrectories with dos commands I'll see what i can play around with in a bit. I was thinking of booting into a linux Live CD environment and seeing what i can do from within there...

I think you just need to get below the 255 limit, so if you map blah\blah\blah\blah to x: and then on the command prompt do x: and Enter, and then deltree /y *.* you should be ok.