You can't refer to the filename from Windows because of the colon (:),
which is confused with the drive-letter-separator. Windows is
obviously assuming that you have the normal "A:" "C:" and now "The
Platinum Collection (disc 1:". Good on you, MS!

You might be able to use wildcards from the command line, because they
are not implemented by shell-expansion - globbing is done by the
individual command. From the command shell cmd.com try

rename The* SomethingElse

and see if that works. If not, use another OS - perhaps linux in an
emulator like VMWare Player, you canhand the USB drive over to the VM
and it'll be detached from Windows and re-presented to the Linux
image.

-jim

On 26/07/07, Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One of my music rippers has created a directory with the unfortunate
file name of:

The Platinum Collection (disc 1: Greatest Hits I)

It is on a usb drive formatted as ntfs and this was most likely
created while connected to my laptop. It is currently connected to a
windows server.

I can neither get into this directory, rename it, or delete it!

Any ideas on how I can get rid of it?

Kerry.


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