How to delete a folder "..." ?


  1. Posts : 244
    win7pro 64bit
       #1

    How to delete a folder "..." ?


    Some time ago I tried out the hidden folder tool Winmend Folder Hidden
    free available from here:

    WinMend Folder Hidden - Safely and quickly hide files and folders.

    I uninstalled it later.
    Now I found out that this tool installed silently a strange empty folder in root directory of each partition:

    C:\Winmend~Folder~Hidden\...\...\cn\

    Mind the two 3-dots-folders!

    Unfortunately the uninstall procedure does NOT remove these folders.
    All my efforts to remove this folder (hierarchy) were not successful.
    It seems to my that these folder are not locked.
    They folder names simply are not allowed in Win7 but possible.

    Even removal tries from BootCD could not delete them.

    So how do I get rid of them?

    Peter
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  2. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #2
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  3. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #3

    Where are you seeing this?
    "C:\Winmend~Folder~Hidden\...\...\cn\"

    Typically "..." is appended to the end of a folder name when there is insufficient space for the entire name. In more extreme cases only "..." is displayed for the entire name.
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  4. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #4

    lmiller7 said:
    where are you seeing this?
    "c:\winmend~folder~hidden\...\...\cn\"

    typically "..." is appended to the end of a folder name when there is insufficient space for the entire name. In more extreme cases only "..." is displayed for the entire name.
    How to delete a folder "..." ?-capture.png
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  5. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #5

    I have seen this many times. I just wanted to be sure where the op was seeing it.
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  6. Posts : 10,485
    W7 Pro SP1 64bit
       #6

    Hopefully, that is what the OP saw.

    In a VM, I installed the app, hid some test folders, unhid those folders and uninstalled the app. As the OP stated, the uninstall process leaves behind the folder structures shown in the cmd window and Windows Explorer.
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  7. Posts : 244
    win7pro 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Yes, this was exactly what I saw.

    Meanwhile I could remove it with the hint link from "UsernameIssues"
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