Posted by wayne on 08/31/06 00:40

cwdjrxyz wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Well! For problems with files on a Windows computer, you might run some
spybot programs and anti-virus and perhaps even a root kit detector. My
15 yo had several files that could not be deleted because they were
being created and accessed by a rogue program (from clicking on flashy
things on the top of web pages).

If a file is being used by a program, you could boot into "safe mode,
dos prompt" then search for the file if unsure of the location with dir
{filename or part of with wildcard) /s the "/s" will search all sub
directories. Once you are sure of the location, a "del path/filename"
or del path/part filename*" will quickly dispatch the file. I have used
this method many times whenever I could not delete a file from Windows.

If this is the problem, you should find the program that created the
file as it most likely will create another.

hth

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Wayne
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
—Steven Weinberg

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