Need help to remove a long name file

[Guest Andiez]

I have two files in a Temporary Internet Files folder that are 175

characters long. The characters are letters and numbers, and the files are

..htm which open to http://www.msn.com. I can't remove them delete them, view the

properties, or anything except open them. Does anyone have any idea how to

remove them outside of formatting the drive, which may not work. Help!

 

Andie Z

[Guest philo]

Re: Need help to remove a long name file

 

 

"Andiez" <andiez@verizonremove.net> wrote in message

news:38Ccj.1414$OH6.584@trndny03...

> I have two files in a Temporary Internet Files folder that are 175

> characters long. The characters are letters and numbers, and the files

are

> .htm which open to http://www.msn.com. I can't remove them delete them, view the

> properties, or anything except open them. Does anyone have any idea how

to

> remove them outside of formatting the drive, which may not work. Help!

>

> Andie Z

>

>

>

>

 

 

open a command prompt then enter chkdsk /f

 

say yes

 

then reboot...

 

after any file system errors are corrected, they should be deleteable

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Need help to remove a long name file

 

 

"Andiez" <andiez@verizonremove.net> wrote in message

news:38Ccj.1414$OH6.584@trndny03...

>I have two files in a Temporary Internet Files folder that are 175

>characters long. The characters are letters and numbers, and the files

>are .htm which open to http://www.msn.com. I can't remove them delete them, view

>the properties, or anything except open them. Does anyone have any idea

>how to remove them outside of formatting the drive, which may not work.

>Help!

>

> Andie Z

 

Try this if Philo's recipe does not work:

- Click Start / Run / cmd{OK}

- Type these commands:

cd "\Documents and Settings\..."{Enter}

(Enter the full path name to the problem folder)

dir /x /p {Enter}

(Make a note of the short file name for the problem file)

del {Short File Name}{Enter}

[Guest George Hester]

Re: Need help to remove a long name file

 

Had the same problem the other day. They were cookie files with names that

were too long. Try this. Go into the folder with the command prompt where

the files reside. Make sure you remove from that folder any files you want

to some other folder. Then type: cd.. and hit enter. You should be one

folder up from where the files reside. Then type rmdir /s /q %NAMEOFFOLDER%

where NAMEOFFOLDER is the folder's name that is containing the files you

want to remove. Then hit ENTER.

 

--

 

George Hester

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"Andiez" <andiez@verizonremove.net> wrote in message

news:38Ccj.1414$OH6.584@trndny03...

> I have two files in a Temporary Internet Files folder that are 175

> characters long. The characters are letters and numbers, and the files

are

> .htm which open to http://www.msn.com. I can't remove them delete them, view the

> properties, or anything except open them. Does anyone have any idea how

to

> remove them outside of formatting the drive, which may not work. Help!

>

> Andie Z

>

>

>

>

[Guest zeke7]

Re: Need help to remove a long name file

 

On Dec 27 2007, 10:08 am, "George Hester" <hesterl...@hotmail.com>

wrote:

> Had the same problem the other day. They were cookie files with names that

> were too long. Try this. Go into the folder with the command prompt where

> the files reside. Make sure you remove from that folder any files you want

> to some other folder. Then type: cd.. and hit enter. You should be one

> folder up from where the files reside. Then type rmdir /s /q %NAMEOFFOLDER%

> where NAMEOFFOLDER is the folder's name that is containing the files you

> want to remove. Then hit ENTER.

>

> --

>

> George Hester

> _________________________________"Andiez" <and...@verizonremove.net> wrote in message

>

> news:38Ccj.1414$OH6.584@trndny03...

>

> > I have two files in a Temporary Internet Files folder that are 175

> > characters long. The characters are letters and numbers, and the files

> are

> > .htm which open towww.msn.com. I can't remove them delete them, view the

> > properties, or anything except open them. Does anyone have any idea how

> to

> > remove them outside of formatting the drive, which may not work. Help!

>

> > Andie Z

 

Andie: had this same problem in Win2k, in my case it was with Windows

Update files downloaded from the Microsoft catalog. Interesting that

the OS's very website filenames that are too long for their own

system to handle. (Their Catalog website appends long garbled

nonsensical alphanumeric suffixes to the downloaded files.) Couldn't

delete, rename, or move the files from Explorer.

 

Found 2 solutions on other forums (forget which); am confident one or

the other, or a combination of the 2 will work for you; they did for

me:

 

1. Use the command prompt to find the 'short' filename for these

(familiarity in the old DOS command-line environment is required]:

"use command prompt to find the offending file. use the command dir /x

to get the shortened file name ie 12345~1.jpg. then enter del

12345~1.jpg. 12345~1.jpg obviously being substituted for whatever file

you wish to remove."

 

Using the s-switch "del [short filename] /s" helps in some cases; for

troublesome folders, use same technique but the command is "rd [short

foldername] /s" (no quotes).

 

2. A free program written specifically for this task,

"DelinvFile.exe" (v3.02). I was a bit nervous using it at first but it

worked perfectly for me, even getting rid of a couple of folders that

the above technique could not achieve. The source website is "http://

www.purgeie.com/delinv/"; other download site also offer it, some

offering v.2.02, which is completely freeware according to the source

website. v3.02 apparently provides some advanced features on a 15-day

try-before-you-buy trial, where they were all free with v.2.02. But

you'll probably just need it once, so get the 3.02.