Posted by cwdjrxyz on 08/31/06 00:17

wayne wrote:
> cwdjrxyz wrote:
> > Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> >> For your situation Windows may be locking the file thinking some process
> >> is currently accessing it. Have you tried chkdsk from the Recovery
> >> Console? Since in Recovery Console your in a pseudo-DOS it can solve
> >> such locking issues. Another option is to slave the drive to another
> >> system and check the disk that way...
> >
> > Thanks for the 2 suggestions. I don't have another suitable system to
> > slave the drive to. However using the Recovery Console likely will be
> > possible.
> >
> > I have started looking at the registry, and I have found something
> > interesting there. Looking at
> > HKEY_Current_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603\ there
> > are 4 key entries with numbers as names, all of type REG_SZ and with
> > data values of the type MOVIE.mpg, .mpg, MOVIE, and .vob . However a
> > search of the C-drive turns up only the Ghost file "MOVIE" of zero byte
> > size. There was a MOVIE.mpg file at one time when the file was being
> > processed to convert to .vob and other DVD files, and the computer
> > crashed when doing this. I am considering deleting the MOVIE.mpg, .mpg,
> > and .vob keys one at a time to see if this helps. Of course I will
> > backup up the registry and set a restore point just before doing this
> > each time. It appears that the icon for the ghost file is under control
> > of the MOVIE key. The MOVIE.mpg key might be pointing to some other
> > data used by defrag that was not deleted after recovery from the crash,
> > so the defrag report still thinks it has a 4 GB movie file, but of
> > course fails to defrag it if it is not there. This is just a wild
> > guess.
> >
>
> It looks like your server could be Linux based, is this correct? If so,
> you could delete the directory that the file is in (I believe that was
> your original intention) with rm -rf path/directory
>
> rm is remove and -rf means recursive (everything inside the directory)
> and force (do it even if there are errors).

The quotes from me concern a ghost movie file on a computer with
Windows OS and have nothing to do with a server. Jonathan Little's
quotes you give are directed toward that problem, and my response to
him concerns this subject. The original poster's problem concerns a
ghost icon on the server. I assume your comment is directed to the
original poster's problem on the server. I do use a Unix-Penguin-Apache
:-) server with extensive access through a control panel, but this has
no bearing on my problem on the computer.

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