Use this tag if you are trying to delete files or folders. It is usually helpful to have an operating system tag alongside.
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Remove a persistent background photo in slide show sent to me for editing
I've been sent a slide show to edit but I can't remove the background photo from Slide 1 and it doesn't show up in slide masters either. If I deselect slide backgrounds in the format background tab, ...
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How can I undo an “RD /S /Q <path>” command prompt command?
I accidentally deleted an important folder I had on my Windows 7 desktop using the administrative command prompt command listed as:
"RD /S /Q "C:\Users\Robby\Desktop\Pictures&Things"
I ...
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Folders disappear every time Windows XP starts up
Symptoms:
Whenever my Windows XP machine starts up, subfolders disappear from the first top-level folder, listed alphabetically (eg. from "C:\AA Backups"). The first time it happened I suspected user ...
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Setting Windows 7's Recycle Bin to automatically have a default disk space allocation for deleted files from newly mounted drives
How do I set Windows 7's Recycle Bin to automatically have a default disk space allocation for deleted files from external hard drives and TrueCrypt-mounted volumes?
I remember in Windows XP, I can ...
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Deleting items in Windows 7 delay
When I delete an item in Windows 7 from within Windows Explorer, a window pops up with a progress bar saying "discovering items". This can take 15 seconds to disappear before the item is deleted.
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How to delete active logins in ie9
How to delete active Logins in ie9?? I want all logins to be cleared on closing the browser(ie9). Can anyone help me out??
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Can I delete a GPG keyring specified with --keyring while stream is currently being encrypted?
I have a project where I am encrypting a stream like so:
some_command | gpg --keyring tempkeyring.gpg --recipient "person" --output filename.gpg --encrypt
So while the stream is taking place and ...
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Make a batch file find duplicate file names with different extensions, and actions on the results
What I want to do is have a batch file search folders, and subfolders, for matching file names that are ending in .mp3 and .wma and delete or move the *.wma duplicates.
Below you'll find what I have ...
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OSX: The item XYZ.txt~ can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted
I'm trying to delete a file under OSX Lion, but can't. I get the following message:
The item XYZ.txt~ can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be
deleted.
Here's what I've tried:
select ...
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Windows Live Photo Gallery is deleting photos
I'm helping my mother organize her photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery (Windows 7). We've been scanning in slides taken decades ago.
We want to arrange the photos by date, so we have been changing ...
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Not able to delete an email account
I entered an IMAP email into my Outlook (it is not the only email account I have). I then realized, I did not want it in my account so I went to Tools/Account Settings/Email Tab and deleted the file. ...
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Why am I unable to delete an album in the 'My Music' folder?
I'm new to this and got Windows 7 the other day.
What I am wanting to do is simply delete an album from the 'My Music' folder but I can't seem to be able to do this - if I right click, there is no ...
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RSync move files to a different directory if they were deleted on the server
So right now I use rsync to synchronize files with a server. Sometimes the files on the server are deleted (I know about the --delete option and I do not use it) and those files are left in my local ...
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Deleting Folders with same name in unix HP_UX
I accidently created a folder which has the same name of a folder which was already existing in the same parent directory.
i want to delete the newly created directory.
is ther a way to identify the ...
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Trying to delete large, redundant user file 166MB. Recycle bin hold up
Using Win 7, 64 bit. Recently Dell had to create a new user file for me, to solve a corruption problem. All good, but when I try to delete the original user file (166MB) I get the error msg about ...
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mails deleted from thunderbird while system formatting
I am screwed and really disturbed. Since 1 year i am using Thunderbird and receiving & sending emails using it. I have a godaddy hosted webmail account.
Now today i re-installed windows in my ...
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“My Documents/My Pictures” deleted on XP. “My Documents” copied on W7. “My Picture” now phantom
Any help on a issue probably related to deleted system folders would be terrific:
My old computer did run XP.
On my old computer, I deleted "My documents/My images" -- never had any problem there.
I ...
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Prevent windows explorer from changing path when folder is deleted
I quite often drop and re-create folders. If an explorer window is open in a folder which gets deleted, explorer will automatically jump to the nearest existing parent folder as soon as it detects the ...
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Delete rows in Excel based on returned value in row cell
I have a worksheet in Excel with values in some rows in column B that have been returned as zero (0) but still have a formula in the cell. I want to be able to delete just these rows using a macro.
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Can't delete ._Icon from Dropbox in Windows
I used Dropbox on mac recently and that Synced some files with windows. Now I'm not using a mac anymore and there's a file named ._Icon that refuses to go away.
I am not able to delete it, nor am I ...
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OS X: directory access stalls; how to delete the directory?
There is a directory on my (solid-state) drive on OS X (Lion) that makes the computer stall when I try to delete or otherwise access it (no processor or drive activity). What can be attempted so as ...
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Deleting network files, I usually get “action cannot be completed blah file is in use” error. Must wait to delete
I'm on win7, deleting files on windows server 2003.
It feels like just the act of selecting the folder, and especially opening it, will put it "in use" for at least 20-30 seconds. After waiting long ...
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Buttons functionality in Ubuntu on a Macbook pro
I have installed Ubuntu (10.10) on a Macbook pro (6,2).
Does anyone know how to get the following buttons functionality:
- Delete (fn+backspace doesn't work)
- Home
- End
The keyboard does not have ...
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Delete downloaded message bodies from HDD In Windows Live Mail using Hotmail Account?
Does anybody know how you could delete the downloaded message bodies from the HDD in Windows Live Mail using a Hotmail/Live e-mail account? I know you can do it with a Gmail account in WLM by right ...
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Batch file to move/compress/delete files
I am trying to write a batch script that will run automatically daily to do the following:
Move files older than 2 days to from the main directory (Jason) to an archive directory.
Zip files in the ...
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Sublime Text mac shift-delete (backspace)
In Sublime Text (2), I can't find the shift-delete that I had in BBEdit, where shift delete removes one character from the right of the cursor. I can't turn on this keyboard shortcut.
How can I do ...
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Why don't I have permission to open a file in my documents?
In Windows 7, I am trying to open a file in my documents. When I do, I get the error message:
You don't have permission to open this file. Contact the file owner or
an administrator to obtain ...
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Permanently delete using delete key - Linux
How can I set the Delete key to do the same thing as Shift + Delete: permanently delete files, rather than sending them to the trash can?
I'm using Linux Mint 14, a Debian distro, with the Cinnamon ...
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Delete a directory off the server
I am trying to delete a folder on my server (Windows Server 2003), but the folder has a file in it that I cannot manage to delete. I used command del /f desktop.ini and get an access denied response. ...
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How to remove all autocomplete urls with a certain url in Chrome
I am converting my localhost:8888 to localhost and I want to remove all the autocomplete urls that have localhost:8888 in them. I already did this for history but how do I do this for autocomplete? I ...
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How to manage cookies when GPO prevents history delete
I've disabled history deletion in the default GPO. Works great. However, now when I have a user who does nees to clear cookies (buggy website), I can't figure out how to clear them. Is there a ...
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How do I properly get rid of the .backupmanager files on my Acer 7741z?
On my Acer 7741z, I have over 3,000 Acer .backupmanager files to delete as per a post I just found on SuperUser.
However, do I have to delete each .backupmanager file one at a time or is there a ...
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Delete on windows vista and seven — discovery process
I've recently encountered a problem. Using svn at work I needed to clear some space.
As you may know svn directories are full of sub-directories and files.
So the delete process begins with a step ...
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How to delete redundant folder?
I do a lot of archive extraction per day.
Archives come in two types:
archive / folder / files
and
archive / files
When extracted, the first type ends up folder/files inside the base ...
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Modify network shares, but not delete?
How can I make it so that I can modify the files on a network share (client: linux, ubuntu 9.10, network share server: windows 7), or create new files on it, but not delete? Or at least make it so ...
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How to remove virtualbox VM with snapshots?
I have a VM with many snapshots. I don't need this machine anymore, and I need disk space. Snapshots eat a significant amount of disk space.
But when I try to delete it by VirtualBox means - there is ...
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Can't delete WMA file on my desktop on Windows 8, crashes Windows Explorer
I have a WMA file on my desktop that is being stubborn. If I try to delete it, nothing happens. No prompts, no messages, no nothing. If I try to rename it, Windows Explorer crashes and restarts.
I ...
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Can't delete files with special (and odd) filename characters
I was cleaning up my NAS and found this odd situation.
$ pwd
/Volumes/Backup/NoteHP/Outras/Ed Motta
$ ls -larit
total 12932
7786751625 -rwx------ 1 rjdsantos staff 3388293 Feb 2 2005 Ed Motta ...
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Get rid of MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase on external drive (under System Volume Information)
I really want to get rid of the System Volume Information on an NTFS external hard drive to be usually plugged onto the same XP SP3 machine that I have control of. After setting permissions so I can ...
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Deleting some system Files for VPN un-install
On my way to un-install Cisco VPN client manually(completely) I tried the following link:-
http://www.maas360.com/maasters/forums/laptop-management/show/13/manual-uninstall-of-the-cisco-vpn-client
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Forced TimeMachine backup to a network TM DISK of specified folder following shutdown command for each of 22 networked computers using Mac OS 10.8.x
I have a 22 computer LAN, wirelessly connected.
Each user has their own identity, user name, and unique password. I wish to FORCE a TimeMachine backup of a specified named folder ON EACH DESKTOP, ...
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how to delete windows.old folder without add desktop feature?
I have seen that windows server r2 run slow after activate Desktop feature. I want to delete windows.old folder in my c: drive.
I have tried to delete it but I seen nothing after press del. Do ...
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Recover file deleted by Eclipse (subclipse) on SVN commit
On OSX using Flash Builder 4.6 (Eclipse based).
In a recent project I wasn't able to rename-refactor an existing class file (need to figure out why this happens occasionally) so I did so in the ...
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How to delete *.vmdk files?
I can't seem to delete *.vmdk files and related on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with sudo rm:
$ sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Temp/vm/
rm: /Volumes/Temp/vm//MarukoVM/nvram: Read-only file system
rm: ...
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cvs delete project (module) and reclaim space
We have modules under CVSROOT that were created a while ago, but no more required/ever used or needed. They are just sitting there are consuming disk space.
Is it safe to physically delete this ...
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Windows 7 asks administrator for administrator privilege
I seem to get a malware and when I try to delete it, it says I must be administrator to delete it(I do not know the English version since I am not using an English version).
But the problem is I do ...
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JRE rt.jar getting deleted on machine reboot
I am observing a strange behavior on some of my Windows machines. I have a Server application that uses Java JRE 1.6u26 (Oracle) which is bundled within it. Sometimes a machine reboot causes the ...
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Deleted the default web site in IIS 6.0 and now it won't work?
I stupidly deleted the default website in IIS 6.0 and now when I add a new website and try to browse to it I get a 404?
I tried re-installing IIS but still no joy.
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How do you delete an iFolder from iFolder admin interface
There are only two buttons at the bottom of the screen "enable" and "disable". When I check the box next to an iFolder one of them is lit (depending on what the state of the folder is)... but there is ...
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Do I dare clicking Delete Volume instead of Delete Partition?
I have a VMWare machine with one VM. That VM has a virtual disk which in windows is configured with two partitions and then a lot of slack space, as illustrated here: http://piclair.com/q8g5s
What I ...
