I have a secondary hard drive, 1TB WD Black. I use this for shadowplay, I forgot to turn it off one night and now I have a 64Gb Recording of my desktop. It will not let me delete this file, my hard drive is full now also. I can delete other files just not this one which is 64Gb. Help would be appreciated.
Help with deleting files.
- Thread starter TribiCS
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- Sep 8, 2015
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make and boot to a linux thumb drive/CD-rom.
open the file manager and navigate to the file, highlight it and press delete. viola. Linux cares not for windows file permissions.
I use this method to delete the undeletable windows upgrade folders
open the file manager and navigate to the file, highlight it and press delete. viola. Linux cares not for windows file permissions.
I use this method to delete the undeletable windows upgrade folders
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In later versions of Windows, you may need to take ownership of the file. Right-click on it and select Properties-->Security tab-->Advanced and pick change under Owner. OK everything then go back to the security tab to edit permissions to "Full Control." It is only one file.
It's a really annoying behavior of modern Windows to assign an owner and permissions on the fly on file creation. I frequently work with boot disks and unpacked drivers which Windows will allow you to copy to a network drive but then not delete. The network drives are FAT32 and the NAS computers are Linux, neither of which even support Windows permissions, yet Windows somehow assigns very restrictive permissions to these files upon creation. You can understand why individually taking ownership of hundreds of files would be a no-go.
Instead of some third-party deletion tool I simply use a Windows XP computer to bulk delete things when cleanup is needed, because it's the last verison of Windows that actually gives you control of your own computer.
It's a really annoying behavior of modern Windows to assign an owner and permissions on the fly on file creation. I frequently work with boot disks and unpacked drivers which Windows will allow you to copy to a network drive but then not delete. The network drives are FAT32 and the NAS computers are Linux, neither of which even support Windows permissions, yet Windows somehow assigns very restrictive permissions to these files upon creation. You can understand why individually taking ownership of hundreds of files would be a no-go.
Instead of some third-party deletion tool I simply use a Windows XP computer to bulk delete things when cleanup is needed, because it's the last verison of Windows that actually gives you control of your own computer.
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This happens a lot if something has the file open. Usually it's Windows Explorer itself or an antivirus.
Try rebooting or using task manager to restart Windows Explorer (in Windows 10 it's the Restart button on the lower right under the Processes tab)
Try rebooting or using task manager to restart Windows Explorer (in Windows 10 it's the Restart button on the lower right under the Processes tab)
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