Guest tom Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 Re: Deleting undeletable files hi i know how to basically delete files but the files i am trying to delete keep saying acess denied it dosent let me do system restores and i cant even view the folder the folder contains world of warcraft > wtf > user names > characters. in that order i managed to delete most of them but there are about 5 undeletable character files.? is there a way i can delete these? "Cal" wrote: > I managed to figure this out on my own... > > "Cal" wrote: > > > "Dave Patrick" wrote: > > > > > From a command prompt try; > > > > > > dir /x > > > and try deleting them using their 8.3 short names. > > > > This helps me in most cases. There is a situation where the file name has a > > "%" in it: TYPE%3~1 > > > > When I try to delete this name (the 8.3 name for a much longer filename), > > it comes back with File Not Found. > > It turns out the full path to the file was too long (not just the filename itself, since the 8.3 name still resulted in the problem). > > The file was about a dozen or more folders deep, with some of the folder names rather wordy. The solution was to rename the folders to something short, like "a". > > Cal.
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