re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 9:26 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by csutton7 (1 messages posted) dir /x is doing it's job. that's the real name of the directory. It's windows that's keeping you from deleting it. The dos command thinks it's smarter than you are. To outsmart it you have to type this string "ren \\.\c:\inetpub\ftproot\con tst" (leave out the quotes and put in your path to the con DIR) this will rename the directory to tst which you can then delete. Hope this helps. On Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 8:13 pm, Matt Darnell wrote: >For some reason the DIR /X does not work for me. The directory I am stuck on is >called "con". If I do DIR /X it simply reads "con" > >What is interesting is that if I type DIR /X con I get the following output: > >Directory of \\. >File not Found > >Anyone have any ideas? > >-Matt > > > > Written in response to: re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Matt Darnell: Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 8:13 pm) Responses to this message: re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Richard Novell: Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 8:32 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Richard Novell: Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 8:44 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex: Thu, Dec 27, 2001, 8:40 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Lazerus: Thu, Dec 27, 2001, 11:11 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex: Fri, Dec 28, 2001, 7:45 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Fritzke: Tue, Jan 29, 2002, 1:39 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (MattTheRatt: Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 7:36 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Fritzke: Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 6:38 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Krod: Thu, Feb 21, 2002, 4:44 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Guido Govers: Sun, Mar 17, 2002, 8:22 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Karl Fife: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 11:34 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Mike: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 3:11 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (John Manton: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 10:36 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Prendergast: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 12:23 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (David Prendergast: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 1:24 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (drew: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 7:39 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (StarLine: Sun, Mar 3, 2002, 4:46 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (John Manton: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 12:29 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Matt C.: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 3:18 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Roch Burton: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 11:34 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Roman: Thu, Oct 2, 2003, 4:30 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Alex R: Sun, Jun 20, 2004, 7:22 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Wayne Harrington: Tue, Jun 22, 2004, 2:31 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (ERICA: Sun, Mar 6, 2005, 3:51 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Matt Darnell: Sun, Sep 21, 2003, 8:13 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (csutton7: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 9:26 pm) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Richard Novell: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 8:32 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (Richard Novell: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 8:44 am) re: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk (T. Hill: Sat, Mar 13, 2004, 4:49 am) The SIMPLE Answer (Producer: Fri, Mar 19, 2004, 4:35 am) re: The SIMPLE Answer (zendoren: Sun, Mar 30, 2008, 11:56 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum