Cannot delete folder - SOLVED

[VirtualLarry]

My buddy has a folder on his desktop, that he cannot delete.

It appears that it contains a space, or special character, after the name.

I cannot: 1) Delete, 2) Rename, or 3) Move using the command prompt, and it cannot be deleted or renamed or moved using Windows Explorer.

The OS is Win7 HP 64-bit.

Using the command prompt, it shows up in the directory listing. Using the "TAB" filename expansion, it shows up in quotes with a space trailing the name before the final end quotes.

Is there a way to remove this file? Win7 is hella broken if you can create files that you cannot remove.

edit: FIXED!

I deleted it using the "short name" from here: http://winhlp.com/node/39

 

[RebateMonger]

There have always been ways to create files with names that Windows can't delete. There was an FTP exploit that would search for anonymous FTP sites and fill them with thousands of subfolders and files. The only way to delete the data from within Windows was to use some POSIX stuff.

I had a client who had mistakenly opened up an anonymous FTP site on their Windows 2003 Server to the Internet (it was supposed to be a local FTP site for their printer). They had 16 GB of who-knows-what types of files hidden somewhere within what were maybe thousands of undeleteable folders.