----- Original Message ----- From: "David Rolling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:22 PM
> Adrian, I've had this happen a couple of times. First off you will need to > shut down IIS. Then use explorer to dig down to the directories with the > files and delete them. then delete any directory that you can. then use the > rd /s command on the first good directory name. then restart IIS. Thanks very much for the advice David. The directories seem to go many levels deep, but the main problem seems to be that nothing seems to want to delete even the directories with normal looking names. The root of these directories either have no visible name or reserved names like "lpt2" "com1" etc.. My inclination is to delete the entire FTP root if anyone knows of a utility that can do this. Microsoft online support says: "If the file was created on a file allocation table (FAT) partition, you may be able to delete it under MS-DOS by using standard command line utilities (such as DEL) with wildcard(s). For example: a.. DEL PR?.* -or- b.. DEL LPT?.* These commands do not work on an NTFS file system partition as NTFS supports the POSIX subsystem and filenames such as PRN are valid under this subsystem. However, the operating system assumes the program that created them can also delete them; therefore, you can use commands native to the POSIX subsystem. You can delete (unlink) these files using a simple, native POSIX program." My file system is NTFS, but RM rejects the file names as "not found" so first I need to get the full file names. Thanks again. Regards, Adrian. ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
