Guest gneuner Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Hi all, I am rescuing files from the drive of a Windows computer that died. Unfortunately the old drive was PATA and the new computer is SATA so I borrowed a USB drive housing and copied the whole "Documents and Settings" directory from the old drive to the C: drive on the new computer. But now that I've rescued files, I can't delete the directories. The offending file is: C:\Documents and Settings\Kathy\Desktop\rescued\Documents and Settings \Kathy\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\RH8ZMR9M \l.yimg.com\cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\ver\242\embed-2007-08-28-1213\swf \yup_embed_module.swf\testmo~1.sol I can see the .SOL file in explorer and in a directory listing from the command line, but I can't open, move or delete it. The file is 341 bytes long, but has no properties in explorer ... right-clicking on it shows only options to "open with..." or "send to". Trying to open the .SOL file with a hex editor gives me an "invalid name" error. Trying to delete the surrounding "yup_embed_module.swf" directory gives me an "access denied" error. I'm on XPpro SP3 using simple sharing. The old computer was SP2 and had user security on, but I (thought I) removed all the security on the rescued files by copying/restoring through ntbackup. I've unsuccessfully tried deleting using the UNC name and the "MoveOnBoot" utility. Any other thoughts? George
Guest cornedbeef007-groups@yahoo.com.au Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Re: undeletable file On Jul 7, 1:11 pm, gneuner <gneu...@gis.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am rescuing files from the drive of a Windows computer that died. > Unfortunately the old drive was PATA and the new computer is SATA so I > borrowed a USB drive housing and copied the whole "Documents and > Settings" directory from the old drive to the C: drive on the new > computer. But now that I've rescued files, I can't delete the > directories. > > The offending file is: > > C:\Documents and Settings\Kathy\Desktop\rescued\Documents and Settings > \Kathy\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\RH8ZMR9M > \l.yimg.com\cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com\ver\242\embed-2007-08-28-1213\swf > \yup_embed_module.swf\testmo~1.sol > > I can see the .SOL file in explorer and in a directory listing from > the command line, but I can't open, move or delete it. The file is > 341 bytes long, but has no properties in explorer ... right-clicking > on it shows only options to "open with..." or "send to". Trying to > open the .SOL file with a hex editor gives me an "invalid name" > error. Trying to delete the surrounding "yup_embed_module.swf" > directory gives me an "access denied" error. > > I'm on XPpro SP3 using simple sharing. The old computer was SP2 and > had user security on, but I (thought I) removed all the security on > the rescued files by copying/restoring through ntbackup. > > I've unsuccessfully tried deleting using the UNC name and the > "MoveOnBoot" utility. > > Any other thoughts? > George DelinvFile worked for me, even when "MoveOnBoot" wouldn't. http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/ Good Luck.
Guest gneuner Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Re: undeletable file On Jul 7, 12:17 am, cornedbeef007-gro...@yahoo.com.au wrote: > > http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/ > Worked great! Interestingly, it didn't flag the file as having an invalid name, but it deleted it. Thanks. George
Guest cornedbeef007-groups@yahoo.com.au Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Re: undeletable file On Jul 8, 7:00 am, gneuner <gneu...@gis.net> wrote: > On Jul 7, 12:17 am, cornedbeef007-gro...@yahoo.com.au wrote: > > > > >http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/ > > Worked great! Interestingly, it didn't flag the file as having an > invalid name, but it deleted it. > > Thanks. > George Glad you got it sorted, and thanks for letting us know. Good Luck.
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