Hi. I've had a really hard time trying delete certain files.

I tried deleting them one by one. I tried deleting the parent
directory.

I made sure that I owned the file. I tried the windows shell and
'cmd'. I rebooted and tried again--no luck.

Then I rebooted into safe mode--no luck. I stopped the explorer.exe
process--no luck. I wrote a small perl script which attempted to open
each file for writing and reported that the open failed for each file.

Then I went into cygwin and typed 'rm -rf <parent dir>' and *poof*
they were all deleted.

What happened? Why did all of these other attempts fail and cygwin
succeed?

Why can't standard Windows tools handle this situation?

"Kramer" <johnlkramer******.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I've had a really hard time trying delete certain files.
>
> I tried deleting them one by one. I tried deleting the parent
> directory.
>
> I made sure that I owned the file. I tried the windows shell and
> 'cmd'. I rebooted and tried again--no luck.
>
> Then I rebooted into safe mode--no luck. I stopped the explorer.exe
> process--no luck. I wrote a small perl script which attempted to open
> each file for writing and reported that the open failed for each file.
>
> Then I went into cygwin and typed 'rm -rf <parent dir>' and *poof*
> they were all deleted.
>
> What happened? Why did all of these other attempts fail and cygwin
> succeed?
>
> Why can't standard Windows tools handle this situation?
>

Since you don't tell us what you see when you try to
delete these files, we cannot answer your question.

> Since you don't tell us what you see when you try to
> delete these files, we cannot answer your question.

access denied.

"Kramer" <johnlkramer******.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Since you don't tell us what you see when you try to
>> delete these files, we cannot answer your question.
>
> access denied.
>

This sounds like a permission issue. Check permissions
and owner when it happens again.

On Aug 30, 1:24 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote:
> "Kramer" <johnlkra...******.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1188504560.824176.207790@r23g2000prd.googlegr oups.com...
>
>
>
> >> Since you don't tell us what you see when you try to
> >> delete these files, we cannot answer your question.
>
> > access denied.
>
> This sounds like a permission issue. Check permissions
> and owner when it happens again.

Did that. Not a permissions/ownership issue.

Kramer wrote:
>
>
> Did that. Not a permissions/ownership issue.


Could it one of those tmp files or dat files used by windows?

"Kramer" <johnlkramer******.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 30, 1:24 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote:
>> "Kramer" <johnlkra...******.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1188504560.824176.207790@r23g2000prd.googlegr oups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> >> Since you don't tell us what you see when you try to
>> >> delete these files, we cannot answer your question.
>>
>> > access denied.
>>
>> This sounds like a permission issue. Check permissions
>> and owner when it happens again.
>
> Did that. Not a permissions/ownership issue.
>

Next time it happens, try to delete the file while in a Command
Prompt. If unsuccessful, make a note of the exact error
message, then post the output of cacls.exe for the problem
file.

Kramer <johnlkramer******.com> wrote:

>Hi. I've had a really hard time trying delete certain files.

Would it cause you some grief if you listed the files you are trying
to delete?

Kramer wrote:
>
> Hi. I've had a really hard time trying delete certain files.

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm
GENERAL FILE UTILITIES
Stubborn File Deleters