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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: peppers on June 01, 2005, 09:27:42 PM

Title: how do I get rid of a file thats not realy there?
Post by: peppers on June 01, 2005, 09:27:42 PM

first its not a virus or a dead sector in my hard drive

its probubley some sort of error in the file tables or somthing like that

when you try to erace it you get hte message "Cannot delete file Cannot read from the source file or disk" and of course no program includeing the del command will not recodnice it as exsisting at all its will say "cannot find file"

1.how do I access the file tables or something like that?

2.if you know specificly how to get rid of this tell me pls

Title: how do I get rid of a file thats not realy there?
Post by: guestolo on June 01, 2005, 09:41:31 PM

Did you see this link?
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum...e=hybrid&t=6390 (http://\"http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=6390\")

Let me know if it was any help

Title: how do I get rid of a file thats not realy there?
Post by: peppers on June 01, 2005, 11:26:25 PM

edit: I read every post in your link and none of it is remotley usefull and that guy never got to erace the file ether

this is how the file was created witch is easaly recreatable in the latest verson of windows xp and probubley all old versons also

useing internet explorer I download a file that was missing an extensiom but still had the . as an exsample "errorfile." with windows xp it you do this it will make 2 files on your desktop both named the same thing one of them will be invisable the invisable one is the screwed up file

if you are runing windows xp and would like one of thses screwed up files on your desktop click save as on anything hit "all files" as how to save it and erace the last three letters and leave the period and this will happen the file will be of course 0 bytes

you cant save over it or rename it
 one thing I did was create a file named the same thing new file will save without the . then erace the . in the error file then when you rename ether of them both will be changed you can delete one of them then undo delete then there will onley be one file witch you can erace but as soon as you reset your computer it will come back

I also tryed a few differint veriations of how to erace stuff useing the RD command but says file dose not exsist

that is all the information about it that could possibley be usefull I want it gone so bad