I'm unable to delete a video file off my desktop. When I move it to the trash I get a dialog box saying "The action can't be completed because the file is open by Windows Explorer. Close file and try again."This even happens after rebooting and right after login I drag the file to the trash. How can I delete this video file?
I have a .mkv video file which I cannot rename, move, or delete. Every time I do so this message shows: "The action cannot be completed because the file is open in windows explorer. Close the file and try again." If I try to delete the folder, a similar message pops up saying that a file is in use in another program.
I have a .MKV file on my computer that I'm unable to delete.
when click on "delete" it shows "Preparing to Recycle" from Discovering items Time remaining: Calculating Items remaining : Calculating speed: Calculating
Hold shift + delete Preparing to delete ... the rest are the same as above
1: everytime i rename the file , = Windows Explorer is not responding 2: click on the .MKV properties, nothing happened.... 3: try to replace with another file with a same name = doesn't work. 4: boot from safe mode, still won't let me delete it 5: it won't let me move the .MKV to other folders as well 6. Cannot take control of it. 7. tried renaming the .mkv extension to .txt no winrar no luck. 8. tried deleting the file containing it no luck.
been to a wedding over the weekend, before going I created a desktop file, wedding, with route to both hotel & venue, hotel reservations, etc., now I am back I want to delete the file but I am getting the message:"You need permission to perform this action.You require permission from 'pc name''my name' to make changes to this folder Wedding Date created 02/08/2012 7:57pm" as I am the only user of this pc I don't know what I have done to protect the file, no body else touches the pc, have right clicked to see if there is an option for open as administrator.how can I delete this file.
been to a wedding over the weekend, before going I created a desktop file, wedding, with route to both hotel & venue, hotel reservations, etc., now I am back I want to delete the file but I am getting the message:"You need permission to perform this actionYou require permission from 'pc name''my name' to make changes to this folderWeddingDate created 02/08/2012 7:57pm"as I am the only user of this pc I don't know what I have done to protect the file, no body else touches the pc, have right clicked to see if there is an option for open as administrator.
i am unable to delete a desktop folder. i cannot move the folder to another folder too. i tried google to find any answer but not yet find. i tried safe mode, unlocker (software) and system restore but none of them works for this problem.the folder was created by camtasia studio 7. when i produced a video file for Internet.when i tried to delete this folder i got the following message:could not find this itemthis no longer located in c:usersusernamedesktop. verify the item's location and try again[code]still i keep looking on internet to solve this problem. if any one you knows the solution of this problem i would be very nice of you,
I have downloaded some music files and a couple of films, with BitComet. When i download the files they usualy go into my download folder, but some of them have ended up on my desktop. I have deleted them from BitComet, and tried to delete them from my desktop. For some reason it is saying that the files are open somewhere else, so it cant delete them. I cant seem to find out where they are, so i cant delete them
Last night I decided to install a game, so I made a folder on my desktop. I finished installing it last night. Today I decided I dont need it any more so, I went to delete it. The file says that I need administrative privillages. Then says u require permission from Owner-HpOwner to make changes to folder. I am the admin though, just got my computer last night, it was pre-owned. Just displayed in the window of future shop, but still pre owned. I changed the account name from owner to corey...
I have a (legally owned) .m4v file residing on my NAS. It's currentliy mapped to W: and about 3 folders deep. My NAS is a WD MyBook Live. When I try to delete the file, I get an error that tells me another process is using it. All other files on the drive work just fine.
I have two blank files on my desktop. I can't rename them, and I can't delete them either! When I try and drag it over to the Recycle Bin, nothing happens. When I try and delete one of them, I get the message "Could not find this item".
I have an .mkv file on two external (2tb)hard drives that i am unable to delete. I've tried unlocker(which actually shut down explorer) moveonboot doesn't work on external drives and a couple other "unlock" programs..
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.1 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional , Service Pack 1, 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model
I installed cygwin in C:cygwin... Unfortunately, for one reason or another, my whole cygwin install became horribly buggered up (my home directory was not recognized and I could not access many of my commands/applications that I had installed/built). Now, I figured that I'm going to nuke everything from orbit (just delete the cygwin directory in my C drive) and start from scratch (besides, I would have loved to make an update or two to some of the apps). This became painfully difficult, as some directories and files could not be deleted. I'm running Win 7 and I am an admin.This is the error that I get (with an exclamation point) when I try to delete a file:
have looked many different forums and different solutions but nothing is working to delete this file from my desktop.I let my sister borrow my laptop while I was away, and she had downloaded these torrent's to my system. Leaving the torrent files on my desktop. I was able to delete them all apart from one.I can't budge it. I've used FileAssassin, LockHunter etc and I've also used CMD prompts.CMD prompt comes back with the answer that the file cannot be found, when it is starting right at me on the desktop. I can't move it to another folder, or rename it. FileAssissin can't find it and LockHunter can't find it. Unlocker didn't work either.
In trying to copy my Window Mail messages folder from my old computer, copying in onto an external hard drive, and I am unable to copy it then onto me new computer. Temporarily I have changed the location of my Store folder to this hard drive and Windows Mail works and displays all of my saved messages However, when I open Windows Mail I receive this error message WinMail.exe � Corrupt File The file or directory J:BackupWindows MailLocal foldersImported Folder (1)SystemISPSymantecSymantec re c0c is corrupt and unreadable. se run Chkdsk utility� I have run the Chkdsk utility to no avail. So Tried to delete the file and received the Error 0x80070091
i am unable to copy a video file, 80% of the file copies correctly and after that i get an error. But i can watch the complete video without any error. I am using Windows7?
this morning I clicked on an image online and ended up with the My Security Shield infection. I successfully went through the removal process as recommended by bleepingcomputer - but have been unable to complete the last step - deleting the HOSTS file. I just went to the cmd prompt and typed in del c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS and was denied. What should I try next?
1. there's a folder in my seagate 1tb goflex external hard disk, which am unable to delete. wen i checked the properties it showed that the space occupied by the folder is 1.5PB!!!! its ridiculous n strange at the same time! if i try to open the folder it says "you need to format disk before you can use it".2. every time i try to copy some files onto/from my hard disk it says "can't read from source file or disk". i have some valuable data worth 700GB on my hard disk and am unable to transfer em onto any other device so i can format my hard disk.
My DVD drive suddenly stopped reading Movie DVDs. If I load data CD and data DVD it reads successfully. But when I load redbox or netflix dvd it does not read atall.
I tried changing the registry entries as described in this forum but no effect. I am stuck. Tried re-installing the device driver too but no effect. Still the same.
I have hundreds of videos I captured and I need to clean them up. Is there a player that allow me to delete the video permanently while playback without going to the folder and delete it manually? Like when you browse images and delete while browsing.
I have this nice music video captured at a live TV show of the French Canal2. Unfortunately it is all cluttered with captions. I wonder whether someone has an idea how to get rid of those captions. My original is in .wmv at 180MBs, but for uploading it to skydrive I had to convert it to .flv because of the Skydive 50MB limit per upload.
I have hundreds of videos I captured and I need to clean them up. Is there a player that allow me to delete the video permanently while playback without going to the folder and delete it manually? Like when you browse images and delete while browsing.
[code] I get the following error message when trying to view a video file *.asx."Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."Plus, I also get a similar error msg with WMC.However if I select VLC to play the video, it plays just fine. Plus I get the following information. [code] Why can't WMP or WMC play this native MSFT video format?
Few days ago i am able to drag and drop any icon on desktop also file to desktop,but next morning i start my laptop i was unable to drag and drop any icon on desktop also file to desktop.I tried many method but all failed.
i using WIN 7 home premium X64bit HP 431 intel core i5 2gb ram also my setting in desktop/view/auto arrange is off in context menu the drag and drop setting is on
I have been backing up my computers religiously. I will open another question post about what specifically is recommended for backups but for now, I need to find a way to get rid of this file on my 250GB Seagate FreeAgent drive. I suspect it got there from backing up my computer which is NTFS and onto the FreeAgent Drive, which I suspect is FAT32, and now, I can't delete it. I can't move it or rename it or anything. What ever I do, pops up this warning... (see screenshot)
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I hope somebody has encontered this and has an idea. I have started reducing the length of the shortcut names when I save them as a bookmark or favorite place. But I still need to get rid of this one and I would prefer to do it without having to reformat the drive.
I'm trying to clean up an external drive by deleting various files (using Windows Explorer) but like every file gives me "an unexpected error is keeping you from deleting the file error 0x80070570".
Now for some reason I can delete the files using del in the command prompt.But I need to delete hundreds of specific files scattered around, so I need to figure out how to get around this error.I don't want to chkdsk etc on the external either. I just want to bypass the error.
i'm having problems deleting a folder. before it stated that i needed SYSTEM permission, so i changed the ownership to COMPUTERNAME/MYUSERNAME. And i'm still unable to delete the folder.
I have two folders on an external drive both of which are empty. When I try to delete them, it says they are no longer located on this drive...try again. How can I remove these empty folders?
I have about 5 MKV files that I can not delete or rename or move. I can copy them, but then the copies will not be deletable at wherever I paste them. I have tried running as an administrator and "taking ownership", but still can not delete them. They are all .MKV if that matters. I am on Win 7 home 64.