Folder deleting problem.

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Dan

Hey guys, you've been helpful in the past so here Iam again
to ask for assistance. Anyway I have this folder, and at
one point I downloaded a video to it, I'm pretty sure I
didn't let it download all the way, so anyway, I deleted
the incomplete file. After awhile I deleted all material in
this folder and was going to delete the folder, but I
couldn't. I think it has to do with the video that was
incomplete and got deleted, because it says it can't find
that file.

I've tried alot to delete it, but I can't...I doubt it has
to do with a virus cuz nothing is in there, not even hidden
files.

Thank you for any help!
 
Can you make this a bit more concrete?

What's the path to this folder?

What's the exact error message? (you can change the filename if you need
to.) What are you doing when that error message appears?

Have you tried this at a command prompt?

If I am hearing you right, you are trying to delete a folder, and you are
then getting a message that a file cannot be found. That's interesting--I'm
not sure I would know how to create that situation if I wanted to!
 
Aight heres more info-
It's in my documents>my videos>new folder (i never named
the folder)

The message that comes up when i try to delete "new folder"
is...
Cannot delete 55488: Cannot find the specified file
Make sure you specify the correct path and file name

I'm not sure what you mean by trying a command prompt, are
you telling me i can delete this thing through command
prompt, if so, please tell me, cuz i think that might work

Thanks for any help
 
There are times when the preview feature that displays a bit of the content
of the selected file in a multimedia folder prevents deleting the file as
long as it is selected. The same thing might happen with a folder with only
one file in it.

I started out looking at describing doing this from the command prompt, and
got lazy--lets make one more try.

Open My Documents
Open my videos
right click new folder, and choose delete.

Does that fail?

You can definitely delete at the command prompt. You go to a command prompt
(one way is start, run, cmd <enter> (i.e. type in cmd and hit enter)

then you do CD commands to take you either quickly or level by level to the
my videos folder (cd and dir and rd are the commands you need--cd= change
directory, dir (list files/directories) rd= remove directory ) directories
seem to have become folders these days....
You either use quotes around long file names or directories with spaces in
them, or you do dir /x which gives you shortnames for them.


exit takes you back out of command prompt to the GUI again.





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