"Item Not Found" is driving me nuts

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Hi all!

For some unknown reason, my 64-bit 7 gives "Item Not Found" dialog whenever I try to move/delete a folder or an archive. All I have to do is to click "Try Again" for the command to go through, but it's driving me insane. What's wrong with my 7? Sample dialog box in an attachment.
 

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higgins said:
Hi all!

For some unknown reason, my 64-bit 7 gives "Item Not Found" dialog whenever I try to move/delete a folder or an archive. All I have to do is to click "Try Again" for the command to go through, but it's driving me insane. What's wrong with my 7? Sample dialog box in an attachment.
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What folders are you trying to delete/move? Are you logged in as the administrator. What do you mean when you say move/delete an archive?
 

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mitchell65 said:
What folders are you trying to delete/move?
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As far as I can tell, it happens with all folders. Folders with images, documents and music/video files. I'm not trying to move system folders.

mitchell65 said:
Are you logged in as the administrator.
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I am.

mitchell65 said:
What do you mean when you say move/delete an archive
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I mean the dialog pops up when I try to move the folder to another location (either by drag'n'drop or by cut'n'paste), or when I try to delete it. Same thing with zip archives (but not with rar). Individual images files for example, can be moved or deleted like normal. I'm assuming it's a folder issue and that win7 treats zip files like folders.

Basically, I try to move the folder, dialog pops up stating item not found. If I click "cancel", the folder is not moved. If I click "try again", the folder is moved without any further glitches, except that I need to click "try again" separately for every folder I was moving. Same thing with deletion.

Edit: I also get the dialogue when renaming folders.
 
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Item not found (folder)

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This happens every time I try to copy a folder, when I OK it, it copies or moves it anyway but its pretty annoying especially when moving more then 1 folder...

I've heard from a similar problem where it was solved by un-installing a windows update, something about virtualizing but I checked, it wasnt installed at my machine.
In general I only update the critical marked stuff

Sys:
Win7 prof 64bit
hdd:
1 Sata (d & c)
4x USB ( g, h, i k)

chdisk finds no errors, problem occurs with every hd
 

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I've been pressing F5 a lot to try and get around this flaw.

Bye. :cool:
 

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This doesnt help, I can create a new folder > F5 or not > move it > error
 

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thats not the problem, the stupid message every time is
 

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none of the spec above is accurate
read post #1 & 4
 

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im sorry but
For some unknown reason, my 64-bit 7 gives "Item Not Found" dialog whenever I try to move/delete a folder or an archive
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or you can go to My Computer from the Start menu>right-click on the drive/folders (probably the C: drive), then click on Properties at the bottom. Click Tools>Check Now under Error-checking.tick automatically fix, and ok
 

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Have you tried the idea by kucing in post no.11 (S/b Computer not My Computer.)
 

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I may be coming in late but WinRAR.zip is another program to unzip files from.
I found mine in C> Program files where I have 7 zip and WinRAR and I can right click to delete it there.
If it is in the registry, which I don't mess with, might be in one of the keys and then look software.
Again, try and wait for an expert to come on.
 

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mitchell65 said:
Have you tried kucing's offered solution? What does your "Yes" mean exactly, what are you saying Yes to?
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I had to write 3 chars, this was just a selfquote. I did this as stated.
No errors found
 

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Mister Moe said:
mitchell65 said:
Have you tried kucing's offered solution? What does your "Yes" mean exactly, what are you saying Yes to?
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I had to write 3 chars, this was just a selfquote. I did this as stated.
No errors found
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This is when you did the chdisk. What about lucing's idea in post No 4
 

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Mister Moe
I've seen this same error once or twice. I tried all kinds of things then when I rebooted Win 7 magically fixed the problem. I've read some people moved the problem folder over to flash drive then deleted it. I don't have an answer for the problem. Maybe MS will fix it in SP1.
 

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mitchell65 post #4?


belikexp, i've this problem for a month or 2 now, several reboots happened meantime ^^
Im waiting every day for a new windows update that would fix this shit
 

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