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Run cmd.exe and type del \\?\absolutepath. So if the filename is C:\tmp\... then type del \\?\C:\tmp\....
Giving the \\?\ prefix makes the program use the Unicode version of the Windows file functions. These can handle more filenames than the ANSI versions. The Unicode version for example allows you to create or delete files named CON, PRN or NUL which are ...
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The Recycle Bin is not a "normal" folder and, thus, does not have to abide by the same rules you know from regular folders.
When you delete a file, the entry for that file in the file system is marked as deleted. The file itself (or, to be more precise, the data contained in the file) remains in place. Windows will then put a new entry into the file system ...
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You can try to export to OVF and then import back the generated file.
As explained here:
OVF cannot describe snapshots that were taken for a virtual machine. As a result, when you export a virtual machine that has snapshots, only the current state of the machine will be exported, and the disk images in the export will have a "flattened" state identical ...
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Try deleting it by file id which is normally inode number on ext based filesystems, but for NTFS I'm hoping it'll expose the NFTS file id equivalent which is what you can attempt to use to delete it.
There are no guarantees this will work, but worth trying. Something like:
matt@mattdev::/tmp/ls -il
total 0
20090 -rw------- 1 matt matt 0 Apr 26 18:27 ...
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