That problem is due to deleteing a read-only file that you do not own.
Windows does not normally allow you to delete a read-only file. When you
try it warns you about it and if you say that you really want to, it
makes the file writeable so that it can delete it. The problem is
that if you do not own the file on the Linux filesystem, the Linux
filesystem disallows the mode change. In this situation Windows
malfunctions because it has no concept of a file that refuses to be
made writeable, and goes along as if it was made writeable and that
the delete worked. But another part of Windows sees that the delete
actually failed and pops up the "Cannot delete DD4" error message.
To fix this up you have to use Linux and go into the RECYCLED directory
and delete all the files.
It is on the list of things to work on in Win4Lin to detect this situation
and work it so that read-only files can be deleted when they are in
the RECYCLED directories. (Linux allows deleting read-only files.)
But that has not been done for the up-coming 3.0.0 release. Hopefully
soon thereafter.
Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> At 05:50 PM 4/9/01 -0700, David Peet wrote:
> >Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> > > Hmmm. All of my drives had Recycled dirs except J. I created one in
> > > /var/win4lin/dosroot and gave myself access rights to it, but that didn't
> > > help. What am I missing?
> >
> >If it is complaining about deleting
> >a desktop.ini file the problem is that you need to make all the RECYCLED
> >directories only readable+writeable by whoever can write to the directory
> >that the RECYCLED directory is in, and make it un-readable and un-writeable
> >by everyone else. (You can also make it unsearchable too just to make things
> >regular because typically when not readable you make it non-searchable too.)
> >NOTE if there is no desktop.ini file in the RECYCLED directory, then you do
> >not have to make the directory un-readable, but it a good idea to do so
> >if anyone has permission to create a desktop.ini file in the future.
>
> I get "Cannot delete DD4: access is denied"
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