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Removing an unwanted folder from the WMC folder display John Monahan 06-27-2008
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Posted by John Monahan on June 27, 2008, 9:21 pm
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I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
.avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
folders to watch for changes etc.

Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.

The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!




Posted by ksreek on June 28, 2008, 2:21 am
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Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming (256
characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could do
that from cmd (command prompt)

Sree krishna
JMVP 759365
MS Pcsafety Escalations
www.virusresearch.info\forum


"John Monahan" wrote:

> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number of
> ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which happens to
> have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
> video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete these
> files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder. It's
> a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
> folders to watch for changes etc.
>
> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>
> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>
>
>
>

Posted by John Monahan on June 28, 2008, 3:23 am
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But I cannot seem to locate the Folder. It does not show up under Windows
Explorer (with hidden/system files visible).


> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming
> (256
> characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could
> do
> that from cmd (command prompt)
>
> Sree krishna
> JMVP 759365
> MS Pcsafety Escalations
> www.virusresearch.info\forum
>
>
> "John Monahan" wrote:
>
>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I flip to
>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a number
>> of
>> ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
>> happens to
>> have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
>> video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete
>> these
>> files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that folder.
>> It's
>> a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC list of
>> folders to watch for changes etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>>
>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>>
>>
>>
>>


Posted by S.Sengupta on June 28, 2008, 8:03 am
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Search for *.* and the text or,you can download and install Agent Ransack.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

There is absolutely no problem in deleting the file once you could
locate it.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]


John Monahan wrote:
> But I cannot seem to locate the Folder. It does not show up under
> Windows Explorer (with hidden/system files visible).
>
>
>
>> Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard
>> naming (256
>> characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but
>> could do
>> that from cmd (command prompt)
>>
>> Sree krishna
>> JMVP 759365
>> MS Pcsafety Escalations
>> www.virusresearch.info\forum
>>
>>
>> "John Monahan" wrote:
>>
>>> I have setup WMC on two almost similar Vista boxes. On One when I
>>> flip to
>>> the Video folder (where I have a few sub folders each containing a
>>> number of
>>> ..avi files) I have a problem. The first sub-folder listed (which
>>> happens to
>>> have the name I gave the computer itself, "Media_Center_1", has 16 short
>>> video files (.WMV's) that I cannot locate. WMC will not let me delete
>>> these
>>> files. More annoying I cannot locate, remove, or even hide that
>>> folder. It's
>>> a bit of an eye sore amongst my own folders. It's not on my WMC
>>> list of
>>> folders to watch for changes etc.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how I locate/remove this folder from being listed.
>>>
>>> The other Vista box does not display this folder. I am really puzzled!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

Posted by Nigel Barker on June 28, 2008, 5:02 am
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wrote:

>Since the file name contains _ and is not complaint with standard naming (256
>characters ASCI) you will not be able to delete in normal mode but could do
>that from cmd (command prompt)

An underscore '_' is a perfectly valid character for a filename in all the
operating systems that I know of. It is an ASCII character decimal 95 hex 5F).
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

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