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  Why can't I delete Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> - 2025-03-07 06:25 +0000
    Re: Why can't I delete Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> - 2025-03-07 16:50 +0000
      Re: Why can't I delete Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-08 09:25 -0800
        Re: Why can't I delete Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> - 2025-03-11 06:03 +0000

#182807 — Why can't I delete

I switch to admin and I still can't delete.
 "Could not find this item"
 "This is no longer located in C:\inetpub."
 "Verify the item's location and try again."

It has nothing to do with rebooting as they've been there over many boots.

It has nothing to do with inetpub because I can create a folder and move
that folder around which contains the items that I can't delete. I can put
it anywhere and it still has the exact same error message (other than the
path of course changes depending on where I put the top-level folder).

I've already descended down to the bottom and deleted anything that would
delete and moved up and deleted and moved up, but this still won't die.

I switch to an admin prompt but it still won't delete.
There's a space at the end of some of the directories.

So the error as admin on the command line is different:
 "The system cannot find the path specified."

What's a super powerful just-delete-the-damn-thing command I can run?

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#182811

On 7/3/2025, Frankie wrote:

> What's a super powerful just-delete-the-damn-thing command I can run?

I think I figured it out. The "x" command did it. dir /x

That gave me the hidden 8+3 tilde name.
I could delete the 8+3 name (but not a long name with a space at the end).

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#182823

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:50:39 -0000 (UTC), Frankie wrote:
> I could delete the 8+3 name (but not a long name with a space at the end).
> 

Not even in quotes?  

del "blahblahblah.xys " ?

That worked for me.


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Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

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#182855

On 8/3/2025, Stan Brown wrote:

>> I could delete the 8+3 name (but not a long name with a space at the end).
>> 
> 
> Not even in quotes?  
> 
> del "blahblahblah.xys " ?
> 
> That worked for me.

I tried everything (except the "DIR /X" trick) for weeks.
Including the doublequotes, which was an early method.

For months, the only thing I could do was move every legitimate filespec
that was inside the poisoned folder, until only the bad filespec remained.

And then I moved the poisoned filespec's top-level folder to a "junk"
location. Every week (or so), a script I wrote that creates files would
falter, and then I'd get another poisoned folder. Which I'd move to "junk".

Over time, they added up, until I got so frustrated, I asked for help here.
But in the interim, I kept looking for solutions, and found it with "X".

DIR /X
DEL 8+3

It's interesting that, in some ways, 8+3 is still very much inside Windows.

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