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Andrey Larin2015-01-30 17:06:23
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Andrey Larin, 2015-01-30 17:06:23

How to delete files with "bad" names?

Hello, I occasionally encounter "undeletable" files that were downloaded from torrents: I suspect that the trouble is in crooked characters in the path. It ’s even impossible to open them, the system swears and writes:
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If you open it through the total, the commander gets out:
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When you try to rename it, it comes out:
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How to be and what to do? This fact saddens me.

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Andrey Larin, 2015-01-30
@engine9

In general, things are like this, I ran the checkdisk, he simply took these files and deleted them, leaving empty directories.
Here is the end of the story.

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Bohdan Shtepan, 2015-01-30
@virtyaluk

Perhaps your problem is that the length of the filename is exceeded, which cannot be more than 255 characters.
Solution:
1. Open a command prompt (WIN+R -> cmd).
2. Go to the folder where the "crooked" file is located.
3. Use the DIR /X command to display short filenames.
4. Delete the file(s) using short names.
PS: if the file originally had a name like "verylongfilename.fil", the short name for this file would be something like "verylo~1.fil". Use this name to delete.
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JSinga, 2015-01-30
@JSinga

Install Linux :)
don’t pick up such rubbish there, and if you want to delete something, then delete it.
No, you can, of course, take a steam bath and delete the file, but you have to look at the root, so Linux!
This is destiny!

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globuser, 2015-01-30
@globuzer

either use unlocker programs, or boot from a live-sidy disk, whether it's any Unix system, or even DOS, but with superuser rights and delete whatever you want from there.

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