trying to delete a file that says it can't find

[Jim]

I'm running win2k and I have a shared music dir with a
subdir called r.e.m. When I try to delete the directory,
it complains that it isn't empty or says it can't find the
file r.e.m. I'm further boggled by the fact that I can
create a new directory in the shared music directory called
r.e.m. and I can see both of these files and I can delete
the new one but not the original. I've tried moving to a
new file name, rmdir /S /Q and nothing seems to be working.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Jim

 

[Mark V]

Jim wrote in

I'm running win2k and I have a shared music dir with a
subdir called r.e.m. When I try to delete the directory,
it complains that it isn't empty or says it can't find the
file r.e.m. I'm further boggled by the fact that I can
create a new directory in the shared music directory called
r.e.m. and I can see both of these files and I can delete
the new one but not the original. I've tried moving to a
new file name, rmdir /S /Q and nothing seems to be working.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Jim

It may have leading space(s) in the name.
The "." (periods) may not really be what they appear to be.
For one thing, open a command prompt and navigate to the parent (of
\r.e.m.\) and do a DIR /x Then attempt to remove it using the
shortname.