Undeletable files, Weird!

[SithSolo1]

Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my first mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

 

[SoylentGreen]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my files mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

They may be the new worm the FBI has been planting on Kazaa. I'll try to dig up the link to clean them.

 

[silverpig]

I had that problem too. 'cept it said that the file was in use (it wasn't).


A little reboot to linux and an rm -rf fixed it though

 

[Yomicron]

Boot into dos (or linux) and try deleting them from there. That is unless you are using NTFS. if you are then try deleting from a command prompt.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Yomicron
Boot into dos (or linux) and try deleting them from there. That is unless you are using NTFS. if you are then try deleting from a command prompt.

I was able to delete the fat32 files from linux no problem, but before I resorted to a reboot to linux I found that you couldn't even delete them from windows using a command prompt.

However, due to laziness sometimes, I found that you could just delete the files after a few reboots to windows (very odd really).

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my first mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

Access denied....meaning a program has them in use, quit all programs (especially kazaa, fully, not minimised to systray). Once you've done that access should be allowed for you to delete them.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my first mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

Access denied....meaning a program has them in use, quit all programs (especially kazaa, fully, not minimised to systray). Once you've done that access should be allowed for you to delete them.

When I had the problem that didn't work

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my first mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

Access denied....meaning a program has them in use, quit all programs (especially kazaa, fully, not minimised to systray). Once you've done that access should be allowed for you to delete them.

I'm not sure if this would work or not, but cant you go to folder options and deselect "hide protected system operating files". I'm not sure if windows would class it as a "system operating file" or not as its not intergral to the OS, but it is part of an application.

Side note: Deleting NTLDR.dll (a 209kb file) through the action mentione above brings oddles of pain.

Its 3AM and I'm all loopy.

-PAB

 

[SithSolo1]

Command prompt didn't work and I don't have Lunix(Just one more reason i should get it now). I'll try the multi-reboot idea.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: PsychoAndy

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my first mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

Access denied....meaning a program has them in use, quit all programs (especially kazaa, fully, not minimised to systray). Once you've done that access should be allowed for you to delete them.

I'm not sure if this would work or not, but cant you go to folder options and deselect "hide protected system operating files". I'm not sure if windows would class it as a "system operating file" or not as its not intergral to the OS, but it is part of an application.

Side note: Deleting NTLDR.dll (a 209kb file) through the action mentione above brings oddles of pain.

Its 3AM and I'm all loopy.

-PAB

If he downloaded them, they're not part of the windows system. He obviously knows what files they are, and their location. The above trick can work. Another is to rename the files, reboot and then delete them.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: PsychoAndy

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
Ok, I downloaded 3 so called music files from Kazaa, that was my first mistake. Well, as it turns out they don't work so I tried to delete them. Nada, zip, nothing happened. Their file type is listed as file and I can't do anything with them. When I right click I only get an Open and a Send to option. Niether worked. I even tried opening with Note pad and it said access denied. Can anyone think of a way to get rid of them? if not I'll just let them chill there, its only 9 megs of space. Oh and I did scan the entire kazaa folder for viruses and nothing showed up.

Access denied....meaning a program has them in use, quit all programs (especially kazaa, fully, not minimised to systray). Once you've done that access should be allowed for you to delete them.

I'm not sure if this would work or not, but cant you go to folder options and deselect "hide protected system operating files". I'm not sure if windows would class it as a "system operating file" or not as its not intergral to the OS, but it is part of an application.

Side note: Deleting NTLDR.dll (a 209kb file) through the action mentione above brings oddles of pain.

Its 3AM and I'm all loopy.

-PAB

If he downloaded them, they're not part of the windows system. He obviously knows what files they are, and their location. The above trick can work. Another is to rename the files, reboot and then delete them.

You can't rename them if they're in use...

If you don't have linux, and happen to have a boot disk handy, just boot from that, and then delete the files.

 

[SithSolo1]

I can't rename them, I can't do anything with them. They are just sitting there.


I have a dos boot disk somewhere.

 

[Yomicron]

boot into safe mode and try deleting them from there.

 

[TNTrulez]

Kill explorer(window's GUI) and then delete it.

 

[SithSolo1]

How do you kill Explorer in XP?

 

[silverpig]

ctrl + alt + del to bring up task manager, then end explorer.exe process.

 

[EvilYoda]

I have that problem in XP a lot...one thing that usually works is to just highlight (click on, and leave) the file, and then just wait a little while. Then, right-click and "delete". I don't know why it usually works, but it does.

 

[klah]

Download Process Explorer (FREE) and it will tell you what process in XP is using that file.

 

[h8red]

Are you sure that you don't have kazaa running in the background? I had the same problem. I eventually made a DOS boot disk and deleted the files, after that it happened again but I could use the DOS prompt in winxp to get rid of the files

 

[DrVos]

Try firing up nero and deleting it through the file browser. Many people have had succes using this method

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

I had a couple pr0n files from KaZaa that were like that. Couldn't rename, delete, or anything. Tried opening the file with Adobe, and it was empty, but the filesize was like 25k. Tried to save it under a different same, and got errors.

only way I got rid of it was through DOS prompt.

 

[Digobick]

Weird, I had that same problem earlier this morning. I had a file in my Kazaa Lite folder that was called "MIB II 2.avi" (file size was around 56MB). I have no idea how it got there, but when I tried to delete it an error popped up saying the file was in use. I went to the command prompt and did a "del *.avi" and it cleared it out (Warning! For those of you who don't know DOS, typing "del *.avi" in the command prompt will delete all .avi files in that folder. I only did this because that was the only .avi file there.).

 

[Beau]

Did you try renaming them through the command prompt? Sometimes you need to use the 8dot3 name (use the DIR /X command to view that name [ie: somvid~1.avi]). Do that, then delete.

 

[SithSolo1]

Originally posted by: Beau6183
Did you try renaming them through the command prompt? Sometimes you need to use the 8dot3 name (use the DIR /X command to view that name [ie: somvid~1.avi]). Do that, then delete.

OMG! THAT'S IT! IT WORKED!

I would like to thank of all you for taking time out of you busy day to help me.

Thank You,
J