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| Thread ID: 37217 | 2003-09-01 00:51:00 | deleting corrupted file-update | colinw (4485) | Press F1 |
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| 172086 | 2003-09-01 00:51:00 | Thanks for replying Graham L, unfortunately your replies are not posted. Could you please try again? Thanks |
colinw (4485) | ||
| 172087 | 2003-09-01 01:38:00 | Try renaming the file then deleting, if that doesn't work. Graham L suggested removing it in DOS which should work. Get into command prompt change to the directory the file is in cd <directory> e.g. cd c:\my documents\ del <filename.ext> e.g. del thisfile.exe and that should work, as I've never been able to not remove a file on my system unless it's locked by the operating system, which means booting into safe mode and trying the same steps. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 172088 | 2003-09-01 01:49:00 | right click and change from read onlty to archive, also try renaming file | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 172089 | 2003-09-01 03:20:00 | Have tried renaming in dos, changing atributes,deleting and moving the file. All come up with "cannot read from file", changing atributes shows "filename, dir. name or vol. label syntax incorrect" Have shown what file shows:-ƒ¡ ‹„¤&‹ this shows as a .tiff file Any other ideas? |
colinw (4485) | ||
| 172090 | 2003-09-01 03:46:00 | ƒ¡ ‹„¤&‹ is that when viewing the file with an ASCII viewer? (Notepad, Edit, etc)? I would expect similar garble like that as a graphics picture (.tiff). Have you tried renaming in Windows, also doing this in safe mode, pressing F8 continuosly after the BIOS screen has loaded should give you a menu to select Safe Mode and Safe Mode Command Prompt. You could choose that and try removing from there, also try copying over the file with another file, open up notepad save as and save over it. Try moving the file to another location, try manually dragging it into the recycle bin. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 172091 | 2003-09-01 05:15:00 | Grrr. X-( When you say what I say, please say what I say. :-( I suggested a way to access it without actually using the present (bad) filename. DOS wildcarding will often do that. Testing with DIR before using DEL is always a good idea. Or moving all the other files in the directory to another directory, then deleting the directory. Again it involves axing the bad thing, without using its name. The name is what the OS objects to. |
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