[dba-Tech] Stubborn file won't go away THANKS

Kathryn,

I'm glad to hear the problem "went away".

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Kathryn Bassett [mailto:kathryn at bassett.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:38 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Stubborn file won't go away THANKS


Andy Lacey suggested:
> Just a thought but could you recover it from Recycle Bin then boot 
> with a DOS disk and delete it?

Forgot to mention that the only way I was able to move the folders to the
desktop in the first place was by booting up from a Win98 system disk
(suggestion by a local guru). While in Win98, I found out that the abc
directory was actually abc~1 - have no idea how that happened.

Mark Mitsules, suggested:
> Restore the folder.  Right-click Recycle Bin, and then click 
> Properties. Click to select the Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. 
> Remove files immediately when deleted check box, and then click OK. 
> ...then try your method of going to safe mode and deleting.

So, I restored back to the desktop, then changed the properties of the
Recycle Bin as Mark suggested. Went into safemode command prompt and went
through all the delete processes again (remembering that to delete abc, it
had to be abc~1), then booted back up normally. Yeah! nothing in the Recycle
Bin!

And yes, I remembered to change the properties back.

Thanks for the Recycle Bin tip - had never explored the properties for it
and didn't know this was a possiblity.

--
Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn at bassett.net
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