re: Unable to Delete Folder
Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:48 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Barry(uk)
(1289 messages posted)
Have you tried renaming the folder ?.....
On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 6:33 pm, midopa wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm running Windows XP and have somehow managed to create a folder that ends with
>a space. That is, "FolderName ", instead of "FolderName." I'm guessing this is confusing
>Windows because I can't delete the folder.
>
>This has happened before to me when I was downloading files with FlashGet and accidentally
>told FlashGet to save the files to a directory with a period at the end of the path,
>"FolderName.".
>
>As illogical as it may sound, this does happen. Try it. You'll be stuck with an
annoying
>folder that just doesn't go away.
>
>Anyway, I've read a few posts regarding the same thing and the general solution
seems
>to be to check it for adware or remove the "read only" attribute to the folder.
The
>former doesn't solve anything and the later doesn't work because Windows doesn't
>even recognize the folder (when I click on properties, all I get is the properties
>box with no data whatsoever and "read only" unchecked).
>
>Perhaps someone can help me out? The last time this happened (the FlashGet incident)
>I couldn't stand seeing the useless folder all the time so I reformat my harddrive.
>However, reformating is the last option I have in mind.
>
>Thanks,
>midopa
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