John

Golly, Sir Bill, (gulp) THANKS!

snuif

Type the following in the DOS box under XP:

rd \\?\c:\recycler\nprotect /s

there are only two spaces one after rd and one before /s.

After this you hit ENTER and type Yes and hit enter again.

Now the whole box will be deleted.





Greetz SNUIF

:guns: :guns:

danothemano

Thank You!
Thank You!
Thank You!

I've been scratching my head for two days trying to get rid of a ton of files in there that end with a "." but nothing can delete them.

I thought Maybe there was a directory problmen and scandisk might fix it, but it doesn's see any problem.

I had all this space used, even thouhg norton said the recycle bin had been purged.

I had tried all my tricks before this finally worked.

what does the \\?\C: mean? I've never seen that kind of UNC path before.

Thank you

dan

<rant>
I loved norton utilities back in the late 80's, but they have really let their utilities go to crap lately. I'm not even sure I like Norton AV anymore even though I've used it for years. Every issue I've had recently their website says uninstall and reinstall. I think that is how I got these undeletable files.
</rant>