Re: avi file won't delete

Leeb18509@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
fkasner wrote:

Mr Blobby wrote:

fkasner <fkasner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message



I copied a tape a friend of my grandson's provided for my grandson. The
tape copied well enough with Dazzle 9 and its software. However a copy
of the vidoe as an AVI file is left on my HD and no methods I have tried
will delete it (over 2 GB so not exactly trivial.) I've tried deleting
it in safe mode, while in "DOS" mode (not really DOS since the OS is XP
Pro) have used the "unlock" program to see if the file is locked but all
to no avail. I've even used old programs such as NSWP (had a lot of
success with that on older Windows boxes where delete didn't work.)
Nothing seems to work. I get a standard error message that the program
is in use or locked. The hardware is a Dell 3.2 GHz with 512 MB memory
and networked with an Me and a Linux box. Nothing unusual with the other
boxes. The router works as expected and even the Dell XP Pro box works
as expected. Only found it to lock up twice in almost a year and a half
of use. I sure would like to get rid of the 2 GB albatross. Not that it
is any emergency at this time as the HD is 160 GB and is not used for BU
at all (recently added external HD also 160 GB is the BU device.)
FK


If you rename them to something without an extension they will usually
delete ok without any argument from windows.

Sorry I tried the renaming ploy. Get the same error message about file
in use or locked. Doesn't work. Thanks, anyway.


This will do it.
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/moveonboot.html


Sorry, but it didn't work. The software admits it can't delete the file or rename the file.
FK
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