I Can't deletea d irectory

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"zulu" <nothere@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>I just copied my entire music archive (20GB) to a 40GB iUSB external HD
>One folder (labelled G) is corrupt.
>I cannot open it.
>The popup says it's empty...
>When I try to delete it says *Cannot delete G, the directory is not empty.
>Now what?

If possible, move all the data from the external disk to the HDD, then
format the external disk and move the data back.

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Yes, that was the only remedy that *I* could think of!
It seemed a bit *sledgehammer to crack a walnut* though...
Ho well, I had better bite the bullet and do it then.
TYVM for your reply :-)

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"Thorsten Matzner" <tmatzner@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> "zulu" <nothere@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>I just copied my entire music archive (20GB) to a 40GB iUSB external HD
>>One folder (labelled G) is corrupt.
>>I cannot open it.
>>The popup says it's empty...
>>When I try to delete it says *Cannot delete G, the directory is not empty.
>>Now what?
>
> If possible, move all the data from the external disk to the HDD, then
> format the external disk and move the data back.
>
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"zulu" <nothere@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Yes, that was the only remedy that *I* could think of!
>It seemed a bit *sledgehammer to crack a walnut* though...
>Ho well, I had better bite the bullet and do it then.
>TYVM for your reply :-)

You are welcome.

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