Re: [PCTECH] "Bad" file

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

will right click work?  Obviously deleting the whole folder wouldn't have
worked either, of course.

I've tried these things with varying success:

1-right click, rename the file, reboot, delete it then.
2-boot in safe mode, try deleting it, or renaming it.
3-google for the file name itself.  This may be a known issue and have fixes
available. 
4-boot from your system CD and try renaming/deleting it.

just for the fun of it, what is the file's name Jon? 

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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Date: 11/04/04 11:45:22
To: PCTech at Midrange
Subject: [PCTECH] "Bad" file
 
I have a file in one of the Temp directories that is causing me grief.  When
I try a complete system virus scan, it "sticks" on this file - millions of
reads show up in the task manager - but no actual I/O takes place.
 
The file will not delete - in fact Explorer hangs if I even click on it!
 
I guess a DOS window delete might work but the directory in question is
hidden so a CD doesn't seem to work and the directory structure is a very
long name to try and type in one go.
 
Scandisk doesn't seem to fix it so .....
 
Anyone got any suggestions.
 
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com