Tagged Questions
0
votes
0answers
141 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
27 views
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 ...
0
votes
2answers
60 views
Remove folders maching pattern recursively in Windows
I need to delete all sub-folders in a folder tree that match the pattern "images".
I can remove all files matching a pattern using
del /s myfolder\images*.*
but it doesn't work for directories.
I ...
1
vote
2answers
71 views
Can't delete install directories inside my own user home
Somewhere in the recent past something has changed on my Windows Vista 64 bit desktop to where I can't delete certain folders. I had started cleaning out some old files prior to starting backing ...
1
vote
1answer
282 views
Fastest way to delete a large folder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Mass deleting files in Windows
Windows 8 provides several ways to delete a folder, but some seem more efficient than others. For example, you can use Windows Explorer, ...
0
votes
1answer
160 views
Folder refuses to be moved to Recycle Bin under Windows 7
I have a folder with files for the project I work with. I move it from my desktop to laptop and back, almost every day, depending on which machine I use it on at the time. The process of the move is ...
8
votes
1answer
365 views
Cannot delete folder - Content seems to be nested recursively
I cannot delete a folder located on my hard disk by any means.
I don't quite know how it was created, all I know is, that it is a pretty deep structure of folders (too deep to delete it at once, ...
0
votes
1answer
540 views
“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 ...
1
vote
2answers
1k views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
77 views
Is it possible for a directory to get unlinked while its contained files remain?
I used to wonder why deleting directories via PHP or shell wasn't as easy as it was in Windows with just clicking delete. I realize now that deleting is simply unlinking files from the file allocation ...
0
votes
1answer
65 views
already opened files in a directory can still be saved after the directory is deleted - Linux
This is annoying feature of Linux.
If I opened a file in a directory and then delete the directory, and copy another directory having the same name to the same place, I can still edit and save the ...
1
vote
3answers
1k views
How to remove an infinitely recurring directory tree?
On one of our Windows 2003 file servers somehow someone or something managed to create infinitely recurring directory trees within some of the users' home folders, and they can't be deleted.
You wind ...
0
votes
2answers
654 views
How do I recursively delete all files or folders whose names match a pattern in Windows?
For the file example, I would like to delete all files matching .+?[a-f0-9]{4}.html (i.e. any html file ending in a four digit hexadecimal). So paged47c.html would be deleted, but page.html would ...
1
vote
1answer
141 views
I cannot delete blank folder which I created
Disclaimer: I don't have english version of W7, I'll try to guess the right captions, but they may not be always accurate. Sorry for that.
I have a blank folder which I previously created and I want ...
8
votes
2answers
759 views
How can I remove a folder without a name in Win7?
I use Windows 7. The problem can be seen from the picture. I have tried to remove the folder "by mouse". But I failed to do so. How can I remove the folder without a name?
UPDATE: Thanks to Nifle's ...
2
votes
2answers
673 views
Delete locked file/folder from command line
It is easy to delete file or folder from a command line.
It is easy to delete locked file or folder from a nice GUI tools like Unlocker.
But is there a way to delete locked file/folder from a command ...
1
vote
1answer
164 views
How to remove a folder with a broken name?
I use Windows Live Mesh to keep my files backed up across many computers, but I have one folder (that I think came from a rar file), called px 2 (with what appears to be a space at the end). This file ...
0
votes
2answers
287 views
How can I remove a directory with rm - rf?
I try to remove a folder with
rm -rf foldername
… but it says
rm: cannot remove folder :is a directory.
What's wrong?
0
votes
2answers
8k views
How to force delete a folder or .dll in Windows XP? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Deleting "undeletable" files in Vista
I am trying to delete a folder in Windows XP but when I do, it says:
Destination Folder Access Denied You need ...
7
votes
3answers
15k views
How do I delete directory trees via console on Windows 7?
I want to delete the whole content of a specified folder on Windows 7 via batch file. My problem is, that 'del' or 'erase' only deletes the files, not the folders and 'rmdir' or 'rd' Always deletes ...
1
vote
3answers
484 views
How do I delete a folder where the filename was generated by ALT bashing?
I made a folder nameless by holding down the ALT key and typing some numbers. It's not a file with spaces that's the problem. It's that the filename doesn't display anything.
Now I can't rename or ...
6
votes
7answers
25k views
Unable to delete folder in windows 7?
I'm unable to delete some folder on my external hard disk. I tried them to delete in safe mode too but I'm not able to perform this. This is a big headache to me now. Even I'm the admin and it still ...
6
votes
6answers
5k views
How can I delete permanently My Folders in Windows 7?
How can I delete permanently My Music/My Pictures/My Videos/etc. Folders in Windows 7? If you delete this folders manually, Windows Media Player 12 recreate all of them again, again and again! It's a ...
12
votes
5answers
20k views
Can't delete folder, need permission from adminstrator?
There's a folder on my desktop called like 'example' and when I try to delete it it says "You require permission from the computer's admistrator to make changes to this folder" when checking the ...
2
votes
1answer
5k views
Remove Dropbox folder from computer
I have created a Dropbox account, downloaded the software, setup the folder, and created symbolic links to monitor folders. The first problem was that the symbolic links that I thought I had set up ...
8
votes
5answers
5k views
How to safely delete stuff from %SystemDrive%\Windows\Installer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer?
How can I safely delete OR shrink OR delete from the %SystemDrive%\Windows\Installer folder?
Don't tell me to go to ...
2
votes
3answers
2k views
3
votes
3answers
1k views
Ubuntu - permanently remove ~/Videos and ~/Public
I've deleted the folders, but every time I sign back in they're recreated. I've edited ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and removed the offending lines, but they're replaced when I log back in! The file say's ...
2
votes
3answers
511 views
how to delete strange folders refering to my c partition
I have some strange folders on my harddisk (they appeared in a subdirectory of a QT installation on my c partition, i am not sure, but i think those folders appeard after i deleted some temporary ...
1
vote
2answers
2k views
How to copy directory structure, by only two levels but not the third?
From XP's Command Prompt, I am using XCOPY to copy directory structure of s:\bloo\"[8family]\"[30-40genus]\"[5species]\ and want to limit the structure to just the genus and families, and ignore the ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
How to delete these Folders that created by system with long name? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can't delete folder in Windows 7
After 2 months of installing windows 7 and my applications i found a lot of useless folders in D:\ as in the below image and i can't ...
1
vote
0answers
136 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
200 views
where are deleted files kept?
Ubuntu 9.10
I recently deleted some files. I would like to know are the files kept in a directory? Like in windows recycle bin. I would like to know where these files are?
1
vote
4answers
443 views
what can cause a folder to become indestructible?
I have a directory that I want to delete, but windows (xp home sp3) is giving me the run-around and the folder is now effectively indestructible.
Attempts to open the folder, either via explorer or ...
1
vote
2answers
237 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
216 views
Reappearing folder on the desktop
I have a folder on the desktop that I created a while ago and it is empty. Everytime I delete it reappears after restart (hibernate/power on again, etc..)
How do I get rid of it?
2
votes
2answers
161 views
Windows XP Delete File Option
When I go to delete files in XP, it's deleting them directly. I had my machine recently reimaged, and this feature changed (no longer says are you sure you want to do this). Where does the ...
3
votes
4answers
2k views
Can't delete folder. Infinitely looped folders created within each other
My flex builder somehow decided to create infinite folders within folders and crashed itself. Now windows cannot delete the folder, saying the file name is too long. Even Unlocker can't delete it.
...
0
votes
1answer
471 views
Can I delete the {…} folders in my c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
Title says it all (I think): can I safely delete the folders with a {<GUID>}-name in the c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data folder ?
Or are they used or needed by some ...
0
votes
1answer
2k views
Help deleting remote folder in FileZilla
I can't seem to delete a remote folder from my linux shared webserver using FileZilla (Mac/Linux) I've CHMODed a few times to 777 on the folder and its parent as well. I'm using the latest versions of ...
43
votes
6answers
72k views
Can I delete the folder “C:\WINDOWS\Installer\$PatchCache$”?
This folder is taking up nearly a GB of my C partition. Is it possible to just delete it?
8
votes
6answers
9k views
Can't delete folder in Windows 7
I'm trying to delete a folder in Windows 7 and get a perplexing error message: "Could not find this item: This is no longer located in G:\Graphics. Verify the item's location and try again.
I can ...
1
vote
1answer
4k views
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 ...
4
votes
10answers
1k views
How to delete “..”-folder under Windows Vista?
I have a folder on my desktop which is named ".." (which itself contains subfolders with an empty name). The folder can't be deleted the usual ways, even not when using the CLI. Does anyone know how I ...
1
vote
3answers
2k views
Delete all files in a folder without deleting directories? (OS X)
Is there a simple terminal command maybe to delete all actual data, all files but leave all the directories there? Including packages (.app) as directories?
-- You don't need to read this:
The reason ...
1
vote
5answers
401 views
How do I delete this unneccessary, obscure folder in vista?
I have a hard drive with a long obscure folder name (26b72166e9fa7bae09463d5c6f90e4) and subfolders i386 & amd64.
After googling, it seems that it may have been related to various ...
