Error Cleaning Trashcan

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I think this is quite a unique error, have never heard of anyone having it
before. But i do. And here is the problem. I did a small clean on my computer
yesterday, reorganized, removed unnessesary files (thus cleaning out over 5
GB of space). And all was put into the trashcan, but here comes the
problematic part. When i emptied the trashcan i got an error msg. Where it
simply stated that one file cannot be removed because the filename is to
long. And since then whenever i try to clean the trashcan it says 14 files
can be removed, and i get the error msg. When i enter the trashcan it is
empty. But hte icon on desktop indikates that there is stuff in it.

In regular cases, if the file had been anywhere else but in trashcan i would
have done hte old usual dos-command rd and that would had solved it, but here
it is not that simple for i know of no way to enter the trashcan through
ms-dos. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem ?
 
I would try error checking the disk. Rightclick the drive icon in the left
pane of Explorer, and choose Properties, Tools tab.
 
Mikael82 said:
I think this is quite a unique error, have never heard of anyone having it
before. But i do. And here is the problem. I did a small clean on my
computer
yesterday, reorganized, removed unnessesary files (thus cleaning out over
5
GB of space). And all was put into the trashcan, but here comes the
problematic part. When i emptied the trashcan i got an error msg. Where it
simply stated that one file cannot be removed because the filename is to
long. And since then whenever i try to clean the trashcan it says 14 files
can be removed, and i get the error msg. When i enter the trashcan it is
empty. But hte icon on desktop indikates that there is stuff in it.

In regular cases, if the file had been anywhere else but in trashcan i
would
have done hte old usual dos-command rd and that would had solved it, but
here
it is not that simple for i know of no way to enter the trashcan through
ms-dos. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem ?
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If you can see the item in the recycle bin, try renaming it to something
short, such as "a.a" and then delete it.

If you can't see it, turn on the view of hidden and system files and folders
in explorer, under Tools, Options. Then navigate to the C drive in
Explorer, find the Recycler folder, and you should see subfolders there,
which you can then navigate to

At a command prompt, (start, run, cmd), if you go to c:\recycler, the
command "dir /ah" will show you the recycle bin subfolders, and you can CD
to them... though the names tend to be long and cryptic, for example
"S-1-5-21-746137067-220523388-725345543-1003".

HTH
-pk
 
Ok, this one was of great use. Sadly i can still not find anything of this in
Windows. But with ms-dos i can access the folder and find the files that
makes the problem. But i cant use either deltree, del, or rd to delete any
files. WHen i try it says it cant. And when i try to rename and foldername it
does not work either. So it is still problematic. Any ideas ?
 
I have seen this problem several times. Windows cannot see files named with
unprintable characters as the leading characters. For example, a space. '
myfile.txt'. I can delete such a file with the command:

del ?myfile.txt
(but not '*myfile.txt', the star says everything after it is wild))
 
Seems like i cannot delete files in the folder cause it is to "long". Have
tried your way and i still get error in ms-dos of "filename to long", Even
when i delete files into the folder that is just named headlogo.gif
 
Mikael82 said:
Seems like i cannot delete files in the folder cause it is to "long". Have
tried your way and i still get error in ms-dos of "filename to long", Even
when i delete files into the folder that is just named headlogo.gif
Click to expand...

You might want to try getting a boot DVD for a linux version, that runs
solely from DVD, such as Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org/)

This may help you gain access to the recycle folder and remove these files.
Just download the ISO image and burn it to DVD, then restart the system with
the DVD in the boot drive. You might need to adjust the boot sequence in
the BIOS for this.


HTH
-pk
 
....maybe you are being allowed a quota of 14 files deleted every time you see
the error message, maybe it is Windows way of saying "you've really messed it
up this time buddy" . It seems to me, and probably not to anyone else,
lol...thats only a little funny...you have tried an unorthodox method of
copying, and possibly have tried to copy alot of files in one go...like I did
yesterday.
I would have guessed rebooting would have cleared the rest of the junk out
of the recycle bin and whereever else.
Maybe there is so many files to be deleted a few more reboots will clear the
stuff out.
Also I found defragmenter could only defragment about 1/3 of all the
defragmented files after I tried a magnificent backup yester...
 
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