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by russellrl2

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The FTP site at work is being illegally used as something. It has a folder called abezboard and a file called .tagged by AbezB. These are on a NT partition. I cannot delete either one. Any attempt to delete or rename creates an error "The systemcannot find the file specified". This is probably caused by spaces in the name that are not recognized by NT. Question is : How do I delete these entries?

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by nmourfield

Run a disk scan on the partition. Check the ownership and permissions on the file and folders. Scan for a virus. Lastly, check your file allocation table. It is most likely an invalid entry in your FAT.

FTP is inherently insecure due to the fact that the passwords are plain text. Consider using something more secure.

by jeng

If you have a DOS box open, use DEL and enclosed the filename in double quotes and type the filname exactly. If the spaces aren't really spaces (ASCII 32), try the following.

I don't know if this will work, but try DEL in a DOS with a wildcard spec matching as much as the offending file with a "/p" option to prompt. You also try a wildcard REN to a simple filename (e.g. "temp.fil") Good luck.

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