re: unable to delete a file
Monday, May 19, 2003 at 2:51 am
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Posted by vipin
(2 messages posted)
I too struggled with the problem of same kind. Even regedit was of no help. Finally
I managed to get out of mess. I suggest you to try one simple thing which might work.
Go to command prompt
Change directory to E, F or G where ever the file you want to delete lies.
Type del filename(i.e. name of the file you want to delete)
The press enter
Thats all!!!!!
My best wishes.
On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 11:03 pm, p.prk wrote:
>yesterday i tried to fix a bad indexed divx .avi . it was like 600Mb in size and
>the divfix program hung up at one time so i had to reboot. when restarted and tried
>to delete the file i got "Cannot delete [file] : It is being used by another person
>or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again." after
>which the explorer started to act wickedly - slowed down, hang up ... i tried rebooting
>in safe mode, logging as an administrator and deleting the file, alas with no success.
>so now i'm feeling helpless stuck with an useless 600Mb file on my system partition
>which is small enough to afford the luxury of keeping and not minding the bastard
>(.avi). ntfs here/i even started thinking of converting back to fat32, booting from
>a diskette and trying removing the file, but that would take much time/need much
>space, and i'm not even sure how to convert back to fat32 [glimpsed at the ntfs>fat32
>thread and the waters there were unknown to me]. so any/all help would be highly
>appreciated.
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