Delete file/folder

Things to try:

- Have you tried hitting refresh on the folder to see if it's already gone?

- Did you make sure the folder's properties aren't set to read-only

- You could try deleting the folder/file with some simple VBA code in an Excel workbook (see example sub procedure)

There's probably a better way to do it, but those are some starters you can try...

Sub DeleteFolder()
      Kill "C:\folder"
End Sub
                                              

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Is this windows 2003 server? if so there is a tool called "takeown" that will allow you to take ownership of the folder and it's contents,and then delete it.  Curiously when I have set permission via the gui I was still not able to delete folders that I should have had permissions to delete. Not Server 2003?? boot into safemode, or off a dos bootdisk, navigate to the folder and make sure it is empty, you will not be able to delete the directory if it is not empty. In dos, or safe more you should be able to delete the folder safely.

what message you get when you try to delete or rename? what kind of files you have inside the folder?
is path too deep? does it contain special characters inside?

you can use dos "dir /x" to see the actual 8.3 dos name
call attrib -r-h-s FileIName83.format
then try to delete

if does not help, reboot and try again...

if does not help, reboot and open in SafeMode...

still no luck, try later :)

Any chance that the folder is in a path that is too long (> 238 characters)? I have seen problems where doing anything with files or folders in long paths is impossible. Usually this happens after renaming folders lower in the directory tree. When this is the case can rename folders that are lower in the directory tree to a shorter name.

If you already tried to the delete the folder, but it is locked by another program (e.g. as it's working or last accessed directory), you are stuck now. You only can try to kill the corresponding handle. Free tools to do that are handle (command line) or ProcExp (GUI), both from www.sysinternals.com (belongs to Microsoft now).

If I want to delete the folder, it POP-UP an error message saying Make sure that the disk is not FULL or write-protected, and/or not in use by other. But no one is accessing that folder, and even the server can't delete that folder.

In ROBOCOPY, how can u skip a file that has problem? Bec. everytime it runs and found a file that can't be copied, it'll stuck there.

With robocopy, use the Retry once, Wait one second option

Robocopy <source> <destination> /r:1 /w:1

Use robocopy /??? for most used options, read the accompanied documentation for all options.