Cannot delete FOLDER "Could not find this item"  

Hi, I cannot delete a folder that despite showing, keeps saying Item not found "Could not find this item" whenever I try to delete it.



I have also tried this method using command prompt (Admin):



Please help...

Is the M: drive a USB stick? If so then it could be corrupt.

If it is corrupt then try to save what you can from it and then reformat it.

dalchina said:

Hi, try e.g.
Fix “Could Not Find This Item” When Deleting in Windows

Tried everything on this page and what finally worked was the DelinvFile tool - which deleted the folder like butter.
One thing I did come across though trying to use the command prompt was that I could not even target any folders that had a space in their name. So in order to dig down to the level I wanted to target, I had to manually/temporarily remove the space character in any folder names I came across. This does NOT seem normal to me.

Can you confirm please if this is normal or not?

orlando1974 said:

One thing I did come across though trying to use the command prompt was that I could not even target any folders that had a space in their name. So in order to dig down to the level I wanted to target, I had to manually/temporarily remove the space character in any folder names I came across. This does NOT seem normal to me.

A space is seen as a delimiter marking the end of a text string in command prompt or Powershell. To pass a string with spaces in it to a command you need to put in in quotes. eg: RMDIR "C:\A folder with spaces in its name\"

That appears to have been the error in your PS screenshot earlier, you should have used quotes.