[Windows XP Home Edition] An empty folder I can't delete

[jaerdaph]

I need some help deleting a folder in Win XP Home. I have a partitioned hard drive (C: and D: ). I have a folder that every time I click on it or try to delete it, I get an error message that says it is not accessible and access is denied. I decided to try to delete it like I used to in old school DOS from the Computer Prompt and got the same message. There is only one account on the computer and it is a computer administrator account. Anyone know how I can get rid of this thing permanently?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Thanee]

Your administrator account probably does not have full administrator rights. There's a pregenerated, hidden administrator account in the newer editions of XP and in Vista as well, which is the only one with full rights. A standard administrator account only has most rights.

Maybe you can boot your system in safe mode and try to delete it there.

Bye
Thanee

 

[jaerdaph]

Thanks, Thanee.

I gave that a try, but it didn't work. Not sure what could be causing it. A corruption on the disk perhaps?

 

[IronWolf]

What is the folder name?

 

[Vascant]

I don't know how well you know XP but the cacls command should work, use it from the command prompt.

You can just type cacls and it will give you a full list of options, the end result should look something like this cacls "d:\Some Folder" /t /e /g administrator:f system:f

 

[jaerdaph]

What is the folder name?

D:/Giga Pocket V5/d20 Modern

The folder used to live at D:/d20 Modern and contained all my d20 Modern PDF products, notes and downloads. Somehow it got dragged into the Giga Pocket V5 folder and showed up as empty (0 bytes) but all access to it was denied. I successfully restored my d20 Modern folder to the original location from backups (learned the backup lesson long ago!). I would have been screwed without backups because there was probably $1,000.00+ worth of PDFs in there (yeah, I'm addicted, but I buy almost everything PDF now including things that come out in print as well), not to mention my own campaign notes and original work, as well as other non-replacables like notes and freebies from game companies and designers.

 

[jaerdaph]

I don't know how well you know XP but the cacls command should work, use it from the command prompt.

You can just type cacls and it will give you a full list of options, the end result should look something like this cacls "d:\Some Folder" /t /e /g administrator:f system:f

Thanks a million for that, Vascant! I'll read up on that command and give it a try. I'm comfortable (i.e. old ) enough to work in old school DOS command prompt mode.

I'll report back later.

 

[jdrakeh]

Answers Here

 

[jaerdaph]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get any of this to work. I can live with it though. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

 

[jaerdaph]

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