undeletable folders

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Ken

Hi,
I have a group of folders - about 200 deep that I can not
delete.
When I right click to delete, I get a "cannot read from
source file or disk" There does not aapear to be nayfiles
there, just empty folders. I went to a dos prompt and
tried to delete manually. No luck there either.

Any ideas ?

Thanks
 
Delete commands are limited in total path length.
You can use the SUBST command to shorten the
path length. However, there are other reasons
that files/folders may be non-deletable.
If you go to support.microsoft.com and do a search
on not being able to delete files you will get a number
of KB articles, one of which lists each of the main
causes and its solution. (sorry - do not have link at
this machine)
 
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