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    From Frankie@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 7 06:25:51 2025
    I switch to admin and I still can't delete.
    "Could not find this item"
    "This is no longer located in C:\inetpub."
    "Verify the item's location and try again."

    It has nothing to do with rebooting as they've been there over many boots.

    It has nothing to do with inetpub because I can create a folder and move
    that folder around which contains the items that I can't delete. I can put
    it anywhere and it still has the exact same error message (other than the
    path of course changes depending on where I put the top-level folder).

    I've already descended down to the bottom and deleted anything that would delete and moved up and deleted and moved up, but this still won't die.

    I switch to an admin prompt but it still won't delete.
    There's a space at the end of some of the directories.

    So the error as admin on the command line is different:
    "The system cannot find the path specified."

    What's a super powerful just-delete-the-damn-thing command I can run?

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  • From Frankie@21:1/5 to Frankie on Fri Mar 7 16:50:39 2025
    On 7/3/2025, Frankie wrote:

    What's a super powerful just-delete-the-damn-thing command I can run?

    I think I figured it out. The "x" command did it. dir /x

    That gave me the hidden 8+3 tilde name.
    I could delete the 8+3 name (but not a long name with a space at the end).

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  • From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to Frankie on Sat Mar 8 09:25:36 2025
    On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:50:39 -0000 (UTC), Frankie wrote:
    I could delete the 8+3 name (but not a long name with a space at the end).


    Not even in quotes?

    del "blahblahblah.xys " ?

    That worked for me.


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    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
    Shikata ga nai...

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  • From Frankie@21:1/5 to Stan Brown on Tue Mar 11 06:03:13 2025
    On 8/3/2025, Stan Brown wrote:

    I could delete the 8+3 name (but not a long name with a space at the end). >>

    Not even in quotes?

    del "blahblahblah.xys " ?

    That worked for me.

    I tried everything (except the "DIR /X" trick) for weeks.
    Including the doublequotes, which was an early method.

    For months, the only thing I could do was move every legitimate filespec
    that was inside the poisoned folder, until only the bad filespec remained.

    And then I moved the poisoned filespec's top-level folder to a "junk"
    location. Every week (or so), a script I wrote that creates files would
    falter, and then I'd get another poisoned folder. Which I'd move to "junk".

    Over time, they added up, until I got so frustrated, I asked for help here.
    But in the interim, I kept looking for solutions, and found it with "X".

    DIR /X
    DEL 8+3

    It's interesting that, in some ways, 8+3 is still very much inside Windows.

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