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Jo-Cose
October 22, 2002, 01:08 pm
I've had this now and again, probably caused by some sort of Windows crash.
You try to empty the Recyclebin and get a message about "cannot delete info2..."
Problem will not go away until you do the following (I've edited the MS KB article so that I and all those of us who have no PhD in Applied Programming could understand it) - here we go ...

Click Start , point to Shutdown , and then click Restart to MS-DOS .

Type CD\ , and then press ENTER.

Type CD RECYCLED , and then press ENTER.

Type ATTRIB -r -s -h info2.* , and then press ENTER.

Type DEL INFO2 , and then press ENTER.

NOTE: This deletes the damaged INFO2 file and creates a new file automatically.

Windows 95: Restart your computer. (Press the restart button)
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When you see the Starting Windows 95 message, press F8, and then on the Startup menu, select Command Prompt Only .

Windows 98: Restart your computer. (Press the restart button)
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Press and hold down the CTRL key after your computer completes the Power On Self Test (POST), and then on the Startup menu, select Command Prompt Only .

NOTE : You can start the computer with a Windows Startup disk if available.


At the command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after each line:


attrib -r -s -h c:\recycled
deltree c:\recycled
NOTE : If the problem occurs on a drive other than C, substitute the appropriate drive letter for drive C in the above commands.


Restart the computer. This re-creates the Recycle Bin.

regards
PS Sorry no recipe today, I am looking
around for some pasta goodies - just
look in again OK?

manunkind
October 23, 2002, 02:00 am
regards
PS Sorry no recipe today, I am looking
around for some pasta goodies - just
look in again OK?


:D

Thanks for the tip.

mark
October 23, 2002, 04:51 am
Good info.
I have an _|: file
that hiccups in Recycle Bin, that windows wont remove.

I`ll give it a go,
Cheers

Jo-Cose
October 23, 2002, 08:19 am
Mark, In your case, I would use deltree.exe to remove the folder and all files in it ... eg
C:\windows\deltree.exe /Y C:\recycled\
At the next boot, you should get a new cleaned out bin on the drive.
If the stuck bin is not on C: , then change the command to the correct drive letter.
regards mate