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<blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3917034" data-attributes="member: 40793">Thats a real corker you got there. I thought that something like a service had a file open in that folder and it was not allowing you to delete it based on that but it sounds like the folder has some set of permissions that you cant obtain in order to delete it - even with admin access ! I believe that XP Home does not allow you to see those permissions but I think this app will tell you.<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/AccessEnum.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/AccessEnum.mspx</a>All I can suggest now is to see what it thinks the access actually is and try to get something to match or exceed it.On XP pro folders can have permissions set or inherit from the parent folder so remember to check its parents all the way to the top. Somebody must have a very limited set. Im not sure how you can change them on Home. Maybe burn a Ubuntu disk and delete it from there !Edit -- Apparently - and this was news to me - this utility below will tell you the exact error why a file process (like delete) failed. You might have to dig around for what the resulting code actually means in real terms but it should give the real reason. Probably inadequate permissions of course but worth checking.<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Redrobes, post: 3917034, member: 40793"] Thats a real corker you got there. I thought that something like a service had a file open in that folder and it was not allowing you to delete it based on that but it sounds like the folder has some set of permissions that you cant obtain in order to delete it - even with admin access ! I believe that XP Home does not allow you to see those permissions but I think this app will tell you. [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/AccessEnum.mspx[/url] All I can suggest now is to see what it thinks the access actually is and try to get something to match or exceed it. On XP pro folders can have permissions set or inherit from the parent folder so remember to check its parents all the way to the top. Somebody must have a very limited set. Im not sure how you can change them on Home. Maybe burn a Ubuntu disk and delete it from there ! Edit -- Apparently - and this was news to me - this utility below will tell you the exact error why a file process (like delete) failed. You might have to dig around for what the resulting code actually means in real terms but it should give the real reason. Probably inadequate permissions of course but worth checking. [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx[/url] [/QUOTE]

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