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"Can't delete file.."

Got a little problem here!

I was just cleaning up my computer for some free space.
Mostly music.

There is a certain file.. roughly 89MB, which I can't delete. If I click on it just once, my computer freezes. If I double click it, still the same effect as before. It is a music file.

I can't get around this problem. I've also tried searching for it on my hard drive and it finds no results.

Anyone know what to do and how to delete it?

Thanks.

Got a little problem here!

I was just cleaning up my computer for some free space.
Mostly music.

There is a certain file.. roughly 89MB, which I can't delete. If I click on it just once, my computer freezes. If I double click it, still the same effect as before. It is a music file.

I can't get around this problem. I've also tried searching for it on my hard drive and it finds no results.

Anyone know what to do and how to delete it?

Thanks.

Try shutting down and booting into DOS, and deleting it from there. What version of Windows do you have?

Also running scandisk won't hurt, it sounds like you have FS corruption.

could try safe mode too.

It is probably only deleting one of the files that is causing the problem.

If you try deleting the files say 10 at a time, you should be able to delete most of them and just leave you with the file/files that are causing the problem.

if clicking on it freezes the PC, select it in explorer using the arrow keys, then press F2, rename it, and hold down shift when you press the delete key...

What kind of music file's 89 MB anyway?

I just remembered that I had this problem with a file once, and what I did was get a few I wanted to delete, selected all of them at once (making sure that the problem file was not the first one selected), and pressed delete. And they all dissapeared no problem.

freeola-moderator wrote:
> It is probably only deleting one of the files that is causing the
> problem.
>
> If you try deleting the files say 10 at a time, you should be able to
> delete most of them and just leave you with the file/files that are
> causing the problem.


Thank you so much! Did that, froze just once but it deleted. Glad I got rid of that now.


Bob_The_Moose wrote:
>What kind of music file's 89 MB anyway?

An album.

And thank you to the rest of you who offered help!
:D

If we told you, we'd get banned..