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June 18, 2010 at 02:44 AM
yclee

Delete the “undeletables”

by yclee . Updated 16 years ago

This problem is not about locked/shared/ etc. files, its about coding, so here is it:

I have a few files with non-printable characters tagged at the end of filename (truncated for char coding problem, I think), with files from servers running on foreign language systems, (my xp is Traditional Chinese version) how can I remove them?

BTW1:
explorer lists the entries with zero file size.
When I rename/delete them, explorer responds with “Unable to rename/detete file: cannot read source files or disks” (translation)

cmd and 4nt (yeah, quite handy) can display the filename, using TAB or wildcards, but totally deny the existance of such files.

BTW2:
I did delete some such files once, but I’ve forgotten the procedures, and the tools.

Can I get away with these kinds of problem all together?

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