Re: Deleting undeletable files

[Guest tom]

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.