Deleting directories with no name !!

[srmillward]

OK, I am connecting to a PC in the USA via remote desktop.
During testing of some in house software (file operations) some directories have been created which have no name (looks like just a space character). These directories are about 30 or so deep. The upper ones have single characters as directory names but the lower ones are all spaces, just one character.
I have tried to delete these using windows and MS DOS (using del and erase) but to no avail.
Windows returns an error saying directory is not empty.

Does anyone know a way to delete these directories ???

THanks

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Try
First
DEL * /F /S ( Or maybe *.* )
then
RmDir /S at the top of the tree you want to remove.

see if that helps..






To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[bcastner]

http://www.purgeie.com/delinv.htm

And the freeware version of DelFXP:

http://www.jrtwine.com/Products/DelFXPFiles/index.htm

 

[linney]

Bogey file of zero bytes
thread779-852492

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1060347509

A quote from a thread which has proved to be useful for these type of problems in the past.


"bheavey11 (IS/IT--Manageme) Oct 30, 2003
I just solved a very similar problem, try this approach:

open a command window and do this

If NT Win2000 or XP Open a CMD.EXE window. If Win9x-ME open COMMAND.COM.
CD to your directory.
Use: DIR /X /A to see the SHORT FILE NAMES of the files and directories there.

use:

RMDIR [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/Q] [drive:]path

/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory
tree.

/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S "



There is always ChkDsk /r which might be worth a try.