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Please help me delete these files
A few months ago I got a new laptop (HP, Windows 7 64-bit). It has a much bigger hard drive than my old laptop, so I moved a bunch of files I was keeping on an external HD on the laptop's c: drive. Including some mp3 files.
I noticed the problem when I tried to load these mp3s into my mp3 player (MediaMonkey). There were tons of listings in my library that were garbage notation, full of semicolons and numbers and system characters. These files wouldn't play, and if you tried to perform any action on them they'd essentially crash the program. If you waited a loooooong time, sometimes it would manage to ignore your action and just play the next playlist song, or whatever. After a lot of investigating, it turns out some of the files that came over from my external HD are somehow corrupted: while the physical filename is fine, the metadata (title, artist, album) is now full of all the garbage-y information.
I'm guessing now that the problem is at some point I converted my external HD from Fat32 to NTFS; I'm half-guessing that that led to the metadata corruption.
Here's the thing: I cannot delete these files or modify their metadata, either through MediaMonkey or file properties. I've tried everything I know:
- Right-click delete
- Delete key
- Drag to recycle bin
- From cmd prompt "del song.mp3"
- Starting in safe mode and deleting
Most of these actions just cause the system to hang, resulting in Explorer eventually restarting. From Safe Mode, I can begin the deletion process, but it hangs forever on the "Preparing to Recycle" and "Calculating" state.
Can anyone help me clean up these files? Thanks!