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My 4 year old son has managed to rename a music video with a name that has resulted in not being able to do ANYTHING with it. Windows XP still recognises the file as MPEG, but it cannot play it. Explorer is showing the correct file size ~ 35MB, however, selecting Properties from the File menu shows a blank filename with a size of 0 bytes!
When I right click on the file, the only options I get are play (which doesn't work), add to now playing list, add to playlist, add to sync list, add to burn list, open with and send to.
Selecting 'open with' gives the usual options, however, none of the programs selected can do anything with the file.
Selecting 'send to' also gives the usual options, again, when I select one, such as mail recipient, the email generated contains no attachment.
I have tried deleting or renaming through the command prompt, the file name is too long to do anything with it (the full filename is displayed through DIR).
I have tried using utilities such as Killbox, this will display the file from the relevant directory, but when I select it, the selection panel shows a blank.
I assume this is all because of special characters in the filename, the file name begins '[7885oyh9u0t96tttt'.
I would like to retain this file if at all possible, however, if this is not an option then I would be happy with deleting the damned thing.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do?
Cheers.
:frown:
My 4 year old son has managed to rename a music video with a name that has resulted in not being able to do ANYTHING with it. Windows XP still recognises the file as MPEG, but it cannot play it. Explorer is showing the correct file size ~ 35MB, however, selecting Properties from the File menu shows a blank filename with a size of 0 bytes!
When I right click on the file, the only options I get are play (which doesn't work), add to now playing list, add to playlist, add to sync list, add to burn list, open with and send to.
Selecting 'open with' gives the usual options, however, none of the programs selected can do anything with the file.
Selecting 'send to' also gives the usual options, again, when I select one, such as mail recipient, the email generated contains no attachment.
I have tried deleting or renaming through the command prompt, the file name is too long to do anything with it (the full filename is displayed through DIR).
I have tried using utilities such as Killbox, this will display the file from the relevant directory, but when I select it, the selection panel shows a blank.
I assume this is all because of special characters in the filename, the file name begins '[7885oyh9u0t96tttt'.
I would like to retain this file if at all possible, however, if this is not an option then I would be happy with deleting the damned thing.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can do?
Cheers.
:frown:
