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re: Unable to Delete Folder
Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 8:07 am
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Posted by Dale (1 messages posted)


Is the folder you can't delete in a separate folder of its own?

If so, you can do 

rmdir separatefolder /S 

from the command prompt to remove a) the separate folder and more importantly b) 
your annoying folder!

Was struggling to delete one of my own until this afternoon.





On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 3:38 pm, midopa wrote:
>That didn't work either. I've tried a number of combinations of quotations, asterisks,
>and question marks.
>
>Haha... Windows is a big pain in the ass with this... haha..
>



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re: Unable to Delete Folder (midopa: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 3:38 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Unable to Delete Folder (midopa: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 6:33 pm)
-re: Unable to Delete Folder (Barry(uk): Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 6:48 pm)
-re: Unable to Delete Folder (midopa: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 6:51 pm)
*re: Unable to Delete Folder (phantom: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 7:44 pm)
-re: Unable to Delete Folder (czyxzy: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 8:17 pm)
-re: Unable to Delete Folder (midopa: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 8:43 pm)
*re: Unable to Delete Folder (midopa: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 10:27 pm)
-re: Unable to Delete Folder (czyxzy: Sun, Jan 18, 2004, 11:41 pm)
-re: Unable to Delete Folder (midopa: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 3:38 pm)
*re: Unable to Delete Folder (Dale: Thu, Jan 20, 2005, 8:07 am)
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