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Posted by Brian Cryer on 08/29/06 13:26
"cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote in message
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> dorayme wrote:
>> Anyone had the prob of a blank icon appearing in a folder on the
>> server which cannot be deleted because it is not seen by some
>> process?
>>
>> FTP Error: /www/website/gallery/thumbs/Icon: No such file or
>> directory (Icon)
>>
>> and this stops the whole folder from being deleted?
>>
>> It has happened a few times to me and I never really know what to
>> do... I just ignore it and hope it goes away. Anyone a clue as to
>> what to do besides not worrying, contacting the server people or
>> renaming (this latter can't be done because it is officially not
>> there though I see them in my FTP program. I have 4 of these half
>> existing things. Who said that existence was binary?
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> Ghosts can happen on a computer as well as a server. You only have a
> ghost icon. I have a ghost movie on my computer. The computer crashed
> for some unknow reason when I was processing an about 4 GB movie mpg
> file. After starting again, there was a directory with a movie file
> where it should be. However the movie file was of unknown type and of
> zero size. The computer would not allow you to delete either the
> directory or the ghost movie and would say that the file could not be
> found on the HD. Renaming, etc did not help. I am on Windows XP with
> all of the updates. A system restore did not help. When you clean up
> the C HD and defrag, everything defrags except several fragments for
> the ghost movie, and the computer still thinks it has an about 4 GB
> file stored on the HD. The only sure way I know to solve this problem
> is to completely erase the HD and reinstall everything. I am not that
> desperate to solve the problem which is doing no harm. Of course, on
> the server you use, you likely do not have this option unless you own
> the server. Hopefully someone else has had experience with ghosts on a
> server or computer and can describe how they solved the problem.
Did you try running chkdsk? Start > Run "chkdsk c: /f"
Hopefully you should be able to delete your ghost movie after that.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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