re: unable to delete a file
Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 8:19 pm
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Posted by JimBo
(4 messages posted)
I had the same problem, but managed to delete via the command prompt.
Thanks for the tip
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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