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re: Can't delete a folder with subfolders Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 6:14 pm Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here Hi MS Reboot in to safe mode,,,most folders/files can be removed in safe mode,,but take care,backup 1st.. The normal error, windows is using the folder(s)/flies...in normal default boot up desktop. ======== Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here On Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 3:37 pm, ms wrote: >Any application folder that has contents, like subfolders or files, can't be deleted >until I delete the contents first, then folder deletion proceeds normally. > >What fix is necessary so a folder can be deleted regardless of contents? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't delete a folder with subfolders Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 8:24 am Posted by ms (4 messages posted) Thanks, but I need a fix so it works IIRC the way it used to, in a normal windows screen, not in Safe Mode. I should mention that I have Administrator priviledges, I checked in a full folder that won't delete, and in Properties/Security, "Everyone" has the right to change the folder. These are not windows folders used in windows processes, just ordinary utility folders, and they delete fine when empty, just not if they have contents. ms On Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 6:14 pm, DEX wrote: >Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites > >Click Here > > > > >Hi MS > >Reboot in to safe mode,,,most folders/files can be removed in safe mode,,but take >care,backup 1st.. > >The normal error, windows is using the folder(s)/flies...in normal default boot up >desktop. > >======== > > > > Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't delete a folder with subfolders Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 12:34 pm Posted by ms (4 messages posted) This relates to the problem I'm having. When I try to delete a folder with contents, I get this message: "There has been a sharing violation, The source or destination folders may be in use." The folder to be deleted has no running program in it, and the Recycle Bin has no running programs in it. To restate, this is not "can't delete a folder, go to Safe Mode" issue, the folder {s) delete normally but only if empty. That's the problem. ms On Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 3:37 pm, ms wrote: >Any application folder that has contents, like subfolders or files, can't be deleted >until I delete the contents first, then folder deletion proceeds normally. > >What fix is necessary so a folder can be deleted regardless of contents? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't delete a folder with subfolders Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 2:12 pm Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Just because you don't see anything running in the Task Manager, doesn't mean that something isn't running. Have you ever used Process Explorer to look at what's running in your system? Even then you may not see it all if something is stealthy enough. The only way you might determine if something is really hiding, is to look at memory usage, very, very carefully.. Think back to when you could delete normally and when you couldn't. What was installed or what changes might have been done. I've had the same issues when a program I was testing, made some changes to the system and they were not reversed when I uninstalled it. This is bad programming and sloppy install/uninstall routines. In one case, I went through and killed all services except what was running on a clean install of Windows till I found the issue, but never did determine what was locking up the delete operation since it was in one of the generic hosts. This has been a pain in Windows since Win 95 and actually before that. If you can delete normally in Safe Mode, then there is a process somewhere that is causing the issue whether it shows up or not, or your permissions were messed with somehow by an application at one time. Whether you will ever find what happened is anyones guess. Sad part here is that you may have to reinstall Windows clean to get rid of it! I've been there more than once since I test software, and is why I image my HDD's so that I can roll back to get rid of an issue or the leftover effects of a program when I need to. There isn't always an obvious solution to this one I'm afraid IME.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't delete a folder with subfolders Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm Posted by ms (4 messages posted) Thanks for that data, I knew most of it but as you say, it could indicate a hidden issue. I have various process utilities, Autoruns has many entries but I see nothing unusual- being age 77, it could be there and I don't see it! Simpler task managers see only normal entries. Process Explorer 11.04- everything is normal. One other process utility, saw this: --- 1211 System Error 8/8/2009 05:54:45:AM Service Control Manager 0 7000 RET-XTEGJ7P1EV0 0 196 The HWiNFO32 Kernel Driver service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. --- This is repeated in several events. Does this suggest anything? I install practically nothing, run a minimalist machine, but this is a OS reinstall over an existing install. The folder issue may date back to when the tech reinstalled W2K, IIRC. ms On Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 2:12 pm, C K wrote: >Just because you don't see anything running in the Task Manager, doesn't mean that >something isn't running. Have you ever used Process Explorer to look at what's running >in your system? Even then you may not see it all if something is stealthy enough. > The only way you might determine if something is really hiding, is to look at memory >usage, very, very carefully.. > >Think back to when you could delete normally and when you couldn't. What was installed >or what changes might have been done. I've had the same issues when a program I >was testing, made some changes to the system and they were not reversed when I uninstalled >it. This is bad programming and sloppy install/uninstall routines. In one case, >I went through and killed all services except what was running on a clean install >of Windows till I found the issue, but never did determine what was locking up the >delete operation since it was in one of the generic hosts. This has been a pain >in Windows since Win 95 and actually before that. > >If you can delete normally in Safe Mode, then there is a process somewhere that is >causing the issue whether it shows up or not, or your permissions were messed with >somehow by an application at one time. Whether you will ever find what happened >is anyones guess. Sad part here is that you may have to reinstall Windows clean >to get rid of it! I've been there more than once since I test software, and is why >I image my HDD's so that I can roll back to get rid of an issue or the leftover effects >of a program when I need to. There isn't always an obvious solution to this one >I'm afraid IME.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum