Hello, time ago I made a folder on my desktop to start messing with Torque3D. Last day I tried to delete the folder but it looks like something went utterly wrong, and I get an error "Folder not found" while the folder is still there. The folder just contains another folder, which leads to an empty folder, and it's stuck in ONLY READ mode. I can't delete or move it. I can only rename it. Any help? (imported from here) Looks like the folder got corrupted, but how do I get rid of it now?
hold down the shift button and right click your desktop select open command window here type rmdir foldername\foldername\foldername This will get rid of any pesky folders
go in safe mode and see if you can delete it from there. You could try booting puppy linux or pretty much any other linux distro that can boot off a cd or flash drive and delete it from that maybe. when you right click it and go to the bottom of the little menu where it says properties and then to the security tab, what securities does it have? this is what a new folder should look like by default. It also has a checked box under the general tab that says read only but I can delete it or do anything with it. edit: i'm just guessing, guy above me sound legit lol
Tried with rmdir but it says "Operation not valid" at the first subfolder (Torque3D). Permission are alright. Folder is 23/Torque3D/My Projects/N-Labs My command looked like "rmdir 23/Torque3D/My Projects/N-Labs"
Type this mate : rmdir "23\Torque3D\My Projects\N-Labs" exactly like that The issues was the space between my and project - - - Updated - - - ? That won't work x) also use backslash not forward slash
Now it says "impossible to find the specified file".. Same if I try to use the normal delete button Not even this worked http://superuser.com/questions/28912/cannot-delete-item-could-not-find-this-item-issue
I got that folder lying there from 3 weeks.. You can imagine how many times I booted the pc. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the 0 file size (even an empty folder takes some bites of memory afaik)..
"The trick is to delete the file using its short name. To discover the short name, open a command line window, and type DIR /X. This will show you two names for the zero byte file--the normal one and a "short name" that consists of the first 6 letters of the file name, a tilde (~), and a number. Now use DEL with the short name." I hope you tried to find the answer on google before hand. I got that from this thread http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/89677-cannot-delete-0-byte-file-desktop.html and it says verified solution over it
Solved my problem. Using /Del SHORTNAME didn't work. I used another command on the folder i wanted to delete. First of all I found the short name like the guy above me said (TILDE on EUR keyboard is done with ALT+FN+126 for those who doesn't know). Then I used: "rmdir /q /s SHORTNAME" and voila! Solved PS- Posting is bugged? I can't see the text box in the full site, I had to switch to mobile version :\
