On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:22:14 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: > Hi folks,
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:39:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > <snip> >>> You probably know this already, but just in case you don't, >>> oddball files can sometimes be deleted by using wildcards >>> like B*.INS or BEOS*.* . >> Thanks. I had of course already tried that. It didn't work! > <snip> > here is my way to deal with "undeletable" files: > Run a disk editor of Your choice and overwrite the first letter of the > name of the file with the character 229 in the directory. You can enter it > by holding ALT-key and hitting 229 at numeric keypad (DOS will do the > same when deleting a file). After leaving the editor, chkdsk or similiar > will report a lost cluster chain. Just delete this and the undeletable > file is gone to byte heaven. I had already tried to bring up the file in my disk editor, but I couldn't do that because I couldn't figure out the real name of the file. I knew only the apparent name of the file. I suppose I could have found the file with my disk editor if I had wanted to spend the time to search my entire hard drive for it. It might have taken me forever. I had never before heard about the trick you can do with the character 229. Thanks for telling us about it. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
