Seeking Advice for Deleting a File that Won't Delete

jdUnionngarden said:

No, My Bad ... my eyes are going blurry trying all the various attempts and syntax ... but, it looks like the filename is as I've beeen using:

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You appear to have missed post #8 - this post identifies your problem and states how to avoid it.

Denis

jdUnionngarden said:

No, My Bad ... my eyes are going blurry trying all the various attempts and syntax ... but, it looks like the filename is as I've beeen using:

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OK, when you're already in D: there's no need to specify D: again. So, you seemed to have successfully navigated to the subdirectory \Misc\ which contains the longfilename.mkv

Excellent.

For future reference, when you're navigating directories, don't specify the file name, that's the target once you arrive in the correct subdirectory.



Wait, you can read the longfilename.mkv already in your screenshot. just type del andtheentirelongname.mkv + return.


If you type dir *.mkv you should see all files in that directory with an .mkv extension. Locate the one you want to remove and type del thereallylongfilename.mkv + return.


Sorry Jeff, as Denis mentioned, you must add " at the beginning and end of your command to accommodate for the spaces. So D:\...\Misc\del "really long name.mkv" + enter.

From your screenshot in post #10, I can see that you're navigated to the correct directory that contains the file you want to delete. I see the filename in that post is;

Edit PDF Like Word With Wondershare PDFelement.mkv


So proceed as follows;

D:\z Install Files\zxOffice, Misc Details Fraud 2013\Misc> del "Edit PDF Like Word With Wondershare PDFelement.mkv"


This is the file name.

Try3 said:

jdU,

You need to enclose paths & filenames that contain spaces or special characters within quotation marks.

For example,

Code:

Del "Z:\half a pound of tuppeny rice\half a pound of treacle.mkv"

or

Code:

CD /D "Z:\half a pound of tuppeny rice\"

Denis

Thanks Denis, That's clearly the (cmd syntax) answer ... but ... executing that command has the cursor move to the next line and it just hangs there, same as my other direct delete attempts. i.e. looks like the file is locked. I've confirmed in task manager the App it relates to is not running.
I deleted another unneeded file from the same directory with no problems.

jdUnionngarden said:

Thanks Denis, That's clearly the (cmd syntax) answer ... but ... executing that command has the cursor move to the next line and it just hangs there, same as my other direct delete attempts. i.e. looks like the file is locked. I've confirmed in task manager the App it relates to is not running.
I deleted another unneeded file from the same directory with no problems.

Check post #13. Have you entered everything as I've shown in that post?


You can test the file attributes by typing the following from;

D:\z Install Files\zxOffice, Misc Details Fraud 2013\Misc>attrib "Edit PDF Like Word With Wondershare PDFelement.mkv"

jdU,

If you are now using the correct syntax but the file will not delete then you can try moving all other files & all subfolders out of that directory then use this procedure

my ditty about using RoboCopy to clear out a rogue file - TenForums

Denis

W10 Tweaker said:

Check post #13. Have you entered everything as I've shown in that post?


You can test the file attributes by typing the following from;

D:\z Install Files\zxOffice, Misc Details Fraud 2013\Misc>attrib "Edit PDF Like Word With Wondershare PDFelement.mkv"

@W10 Tweaker
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...scratching my head