Folders Not Deleting

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  1. Posts : 369
    Windows 7
       #11

    whs said:
    That's a good one.

    also, I would be interested if he logged in with a different windows user profile and tried to delete if it would work?
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  2. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #12

    Brink said:
    Hello Joel and Sonja,

    Starting at step 2 in the tutorial below, you might see if booting to a "command prompt at startup", then try to delete the file may work for you instead. This way you will bypass the usual "In Use" restrictions.

    File - Delete from Command Prompt

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
    joelandsonja said:
    That looks like it might work, but I tried to delete it several ways through the command prompt and it didn't work. If you are certain this would work, what could should I type in?

    I simply want to delete a folder on my E: that is labaled 'Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The'
    This would be doing it from a command prompt at boot instead, before Windows 7 starts up. This may allow you to delete it if it was just one of those "In use" issues that wasn't letting you delete it from within Windows 7. You might give it a try to see. :)
    Last edited by Brink; 20 Jul 2010 at 10:21.
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  3. Posts : 7
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #13

    joelandsonja said:
    [...] I simply want to delete a folder on my E: that is labaled 'Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The'
    Hi
    You mentioned you were doing this at the command level.
    Are you enclosing the full folder with quotes, like this:

    rmdir "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The" ?

    because the command prompt will trip up over the comma being part of the name. You need the quotes.

    If that doesn't work, what error or message do you get if you just drag and drop to the recycle bin?

    - Sky
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  4. Posts : 2,737
    Windows 7 Enterprise (x64); Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
       #14

    joelandsonja said:
    Sorry for the wait folks, I've been away the last few days.

    The folder is located on one of my storage drives found on drive E:

    It is not an important file at all, it is simply an old tv show folder that I can't delete. I think the problem could stem from the fact that I recently switched over from Ubuntu to Windows and there are a few folders that won't delete.

    At any rate, I tried the 'Take Ownership' suggestion, (thanks) but it didn't work.

    I'm not sure what else there is to do because I've been searching to fix this problem for a while, and there only seems to be one or two suggestions on how to fix the problem, and unfortunately they never work.

    Although any suggestions would be helpful at this point.

    * I am running as an administrator.
    Since you are familiar with Ubuntu, just boot your Ubuntu CD in live mode and delete the file from Ubuntu. It should be simple.
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  5. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #15

    Here's a screenshot ...
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Folders Not Deleting-capture.jpg  
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  6. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #16

    Nevermind, Unlocker worked, thanks for the help folks!
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #17

    joelandsonja said:
    Nevermind, Unlocker worked, thanks for the help folks!
    That's good.
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