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Posted by Bill Davis on May 16, 2008, 3:33 pm
Please log in for more thread options Kim
Login with an account that has administrative privledges and take ownership
of the folder. You should be able to do this by open the properties dialog
for that folder. Then you should be able to delete the file once you own it.
B.D.
"Kim K" wrote:
> HI,
>
> I have a user that for some reason has copied the contents of his my
> documents folder over and over again in his mydocs folder, ie the path is
> Docs and Settings/username/folder/mydocs/username/folder.....this goes on for
> 5 more levela.
>
> Becasue he did not know what was the most recent document he had used, (most
> appeared to all be identical as far as size adn dates) I suggested I burn a
> copy of this trouble folder and then delete it and go back top how the my
> docs should be.
>
> I tried to copy te large folder to a portable HD, it said file was invalid,
> I could not burn to a cd - the size reported was 663, but loaded in Neor at 2
> Gig, I got many other errors about scrap files having characters that would
> not copy, I tried to aip it and burn to a cd it would not.
>
> I finally copied out the relevent data and zipped and vurned, I still can
> not delete the folder - I have tried safe mode, hijack this, RMDIR, nothing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The error message I now get is that te folder is not empty.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Thanks,,
> Kim
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