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dpyers
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I ran some searches to delete all files with a particular extension from a folder with many sub-folders. returned about 150 files.
When I select all of them, and hit delete, I get the error message "Cannot Delete File: cannot delete from the source file or disk".
I can only select about 20 files and delete them. As I go through the deletions, the number I can select and delete gets smaller, and smaller. Eventually, I can only delete 4 or five at a time.
Meanwhile, every now and then, the list seems to refresh itself and adds files I've already deleted - sometimes 10 or 15 repetions of each deleted file.
This is driving me NUTS! I've got several thousand files to delete and this is just not the way to do it.
Searched the forums and MS KB, but didn't tuen up anything. Any insights into what I may be doing wrong?
Running
Win XP - SP1
Office XP - SP2
When I select all of them, and hit delete, I get the error message "Cannot Delete File: cannot delete from the source file or disk".
I can only select about 20 files and delete them. As I go through the deletions, the number I can select and delete gets smaller, and smaller. Eventually, I can only delete 4 or five at a time.
Meanwhile, every now and then, the list seems to refresh itself and adds files I've already deleted - sometimes 10 or 15 repetions of each deleted file.
This is driving me NUTS! I've got several thousand files to delete and this is just not the way to do it.
Searched the forums and MS KB, but didn't tuen up anything. Any insights into what I may be doing wrong?
Running
Win XP - SP1
Office XP - SP2