cant delete?

[polly5]

hi, can anyone help me? i downloaded a file from limewire that i thought was 'date movie', the problem is it wont play and i cant delete it either. as i have the dvd anyway now, how can i get rid of this file? thanks

[The Mack]

format the drive

[polly5]

sorry to sound really thick but how do i do that?

[AussieGeoff]

G'Day Polly

Ignore the first answer - if you do format the drive you will lose everything and have to reinstall everything.

Now what you can do: Download and install Unlocker from http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ when you install it, it will put an entry in the context (right click) menu. Now find the file you cant delete and right click on it then left click on Unlocker, it will list all programs that have the file locked (so that it cant be deleted), now select Delete from the menu in the bottom left hand corner and click Unlock All. It will unlock the file and delete it (at least it has always worked for me, I have never had a file it cant get rid of). End of problem.

[polly5]

thanks for the advice geoff, i did try that but i should have said in my first post that when i try to delete/move/copy the file it just wont respond. there are no error messages, its just still there. thanks for the link though i will find that usefull.

[fo3nix]

The Mack is being an idiot. You don't want to format the drive. You'll lose everything... all your work, files, Windows, etc.

First, try restarting the computer then try to delete it. If that doesn't work then try deleting it from safe mode -- as windows is starting up you press F8 or similar (it may say at bottom of black screen when it's just starting up).

[polly5]

thanks fo3nix, i will try that next. why would ' the mack' tell me to do such an awful thing?

[peanut]

I have had this same problem before and each time there were different solutions to delete the file. I've renamed it then deleted it, moved the file to another location then deleted it, open the folder delete the contents inside then delete the folder, create a new folder somewhere put the undeletable file in it and delete the new folder. Give those a try.

[AussieGeoff]

G'Day Polly

I think we are talking at cross purposes. When you right click on the file, do not left click on Delete but do left click on Unlocker - a new window will open - it is in this window you select Delete and then click on Unlock All.

My apologies if this is what you actually did.

[peanut]

Oh and if you can't move the file, move everything but the bad file out of the folder and delete the folder. Then recreate the folder and put everything you moved out of it back into it. Hope this makes sense.

[polly5]

Oh my god peanut what a simple but great idea and it worked! thanks for yours and everyones elses help.

[peanut]

Yer Welcome

[The Mack]

Awful? Your a Thief your stealing!!! and you cost me and the rest of the normal world more money.
To do a format you would have too know what you were doing. So there was never any danger of you coming to any harm.


Chill out fo3nix

[fo3nix]

How does it cost you more money? And why is it stealing? Because it's illegal under present copyright law? A large proportion of it is utter rubbish anyway, and just because it's a law it doesn't mean it's right.

[The Mack]

come on dude
why does it cost me money?

The losses suffered through software piracy directly affect the profitability of the software industry. Because of the money lost to pirates, publishers have fewer resources to devote to research and development of new products, have less revenue to justify lowering software prices and are forced to pass these costs on to their customers.

And why is it stealing?
stealing is the illegal taking of someone else's property without that person's freely-given consent

because it illegal under present copyright law?
what?? are you saying its ok to steal just incase that law changes.

just because its law does'nt mean it's right.
no your quite right lets all rob each other.

seriously who is the idiot?

[polly5]

why dont you get off your soap box and re-read my original post. if you read it properly in the first place you will see that i now have the dvd, i went out and bought it.

[The Mack]

After you tried to skank it and it did not work. What do you want a medal, that is what your meant to do. Pay for it!!

[snadsidney]

Just a quick one to add...the next time you are deleting make sure you are not connected to limwire...because you are file sharing the file you are trying to delete might be locked cos another user on this "peer-to-peer" network is downloading the file from your machine at the time...hope that helps