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Deleting corrupted files with special characters in their file names

Postby Chris W » Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:02:35 GMT 

I after a SD card was inadvertently removed from the UPB reader, several 
files were corrupted and now will not delete.  The error message I get 
when trying to delete them is
"Can not delete file.. Can not read from the source file or disk."

when I go to the command prompt and try to do a del . or a del *.* I get 
this error

"system can not find the file specified
the filename directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect."

I had a similar problem before and found a solution on google but for 
some reason I am not having much luck doing that today.

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Re: Deleting corrupted files with special characters in their file names

Postby Jerold Schulman » Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:24:47 GMT 

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:02:35 -0500, Chris W < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >




Try the technique from tip 167  in the 'Tips & Tricks' at  http://www.**--****.com/ 
See tip 5533.

encapsulate the path in quotes.


Jerold Schulman
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Re: Deleting corrupted files with special characters in their file names

Postby Chris W » Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:56:36 GMT 




that looks similar to what I did before but it's not woking here.  I 
can't type in or copy and past a file name because there are mostly 
spaces and just a few other odd characters.  The only way I have found 
to give me the real name of the file is using cygwin to list the folder 
contents and this is what I get. . .

$ ls
ls: t: No such file or directory
ls: N: No such file or directory
ls: +   vk
: No such file or directory
ls: Descript.ion: No such file or directory
ls:  : No such file or directory
ls: s: No such file or directory
ls: i: No such file or directory
ls: d: No such file or directory
ls: o: No such file or directory
ls: (R: No such file or directory
ls:  @+?.: No such file or directory

when I do an rm * I get this. . .

rm: cannot remove ` ': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove ` \241;@\356%+\001.': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `(\aR': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `+\240\240\240vk\n': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `Descript.ion': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `N': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `d': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `i': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `o': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `s': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `t': No such file or directory

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