I was cleaning up my hard drive recently, and I encountered several archive files that I could find when using search in file explorer, but not normally. When I checked the files properties, all have a file size of 0 bytes. Is there any way to remove these files?
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1Why can't you delete from the search results?– AFHJul 4, 2014 at 14:24
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Gah, right I forgot to include that bit, it's impossible to delete them from the search results. When I attempt to it tells me the files have been moved but that is the only location they show up in.– TylerJul 4, 2014 at 15:22
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I am assuming even after you deleted the files, windows still maintains a cache of them, hence shown in the search results as most files are indexed by windows.
What you can do here is try clearing the cache:
Here is how you do it:
right click on the hard-drive -> properties -> Disk Cleanup -> check recycle bin, temporary files and thumbnails and click on ok.
I believe this will solve your problem.
Hope it helped. :)