File permissions, can't delete file with 0 bytes size

Homer Simpson · 04 Dec 2015

I downloaded a file, didn't download correctly, size = 0 bytes.

Reports owner unknown. I can't change ownership, remove file properties, any of that stuff. Can't rename or delete. I'm logged in as administrator but it keeps asking for administrator permission.

??

Another question about file ownerships - I tried to do a backup once, during an OS re-install, many files came back garbled, with file names switched around, many picture files had a file size but would not open, even if I changed the extensions, etc.

It seems easier to just copy files to an external, then copy back, than doing the windows backup. Is this what other's have found?

BorisTheAnimal · 04 Dec 2015

Open up an elevated command prompt and browse to the folder where the file is and write "del *." and press enter.

The command should delete files without an extension.

And I guess the backup is what you feel like is easier, I had a laptop that needed some fixing and I would have been very happy if the costumer would have done a backup, the costumer had done a Windows Easy Transfer but it had only covered like 1/3 of what should have been saved.