Comments on Brian Hall: Can't Delete a Folder in Windows 7 [u]

JustusIV, Thanks for the tip on robocopy. I was ...

2010-04-09T17:43:13.630-06:00

JustusIV,

Thanks for the tip on robocopy. I was not sure how this screwed up mess was created in the first place. Still looking for an easy way to delete this crap. My attempt to write a VBScript to drill down to the bottom and start deleting in reverse crashes before it gets to the bottom.

Dan

Hi, I have your same promblem with a file, and I´v...

2010-02-01T07:33:22.372-07:00

Hi, I have your same promblem with a file, and I´ve tried everything other posts said, but the only thing that seems to work is to delete piece by piece a lot of appdata, as you said...but this is a really frustrating process...so I´m asking now...did u find any other solution since you posted this one?

What is happening is that your robocopy script is ...

2009-12-08T20:42:19.439-07:00

What is happening is that your robocopy script is getting hung in a loop becuase of junction points. You need to run ith with the /XJ command.
I am still looking for a good way to delete when this happens though.
JustusIV

I tried "rmdir D:\Can'tDelete /S" but it said, "Th...

2009-12-01T22:02:48.557-07:00

I tried "rmdir D:\Can'tDelete /S" but it said, "The file name is too long." What's the short name of D:\Can'tDelete?

Just guessing here, but try opening a command wind...

2009-12-01T21:05:28.184-07:00

Just guessing here, but try opening a command window and deleting the files using their short file names (i.e. c:\DOCUMEN~1\USERS\BHALL\ACROFN~0.LST).