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Unable to delete file after installing Cygwin
Hello,
I installed cygwin in C:\cygwin\... Unfortunately, for one reason or another, my whole cygwin install became horribly buggered up (my home directory was not recognized and I could not access many of my commands/applications that I had installed/built). Now, I figured that I'm going to nuke everything from orbit (just delete the cygwin directory in my C drive) and start from scratch (besides, I would have loved to make an update or two to some of the apps). This became painfully difficult, as some directories and files could not be deleted. I'm running Win 7 and I am an admin.
This is the error that I get (with an exclamation point) when I try to delete a file:
Invalid MS-DOS function.
nul
Type: File
Size: 3.77 KB
Date modified: 10/30/2012 1:01 PM
Buttons: "Try Again" "Cancel"
If you need more information, please let me know and I'll try to provide it as best as I can. But I'd love to delete this directory and re-install, if you could help me, I'd greatly appreciate it.