Remove files with special characters

[seanbrown93]

Hi,

I had a Windows 2000 server FTP service up for a couple of days and someone hacked in and added a whole bunch of folders with special characters (ones that Windows doesn't recognize I assume). Each time I try to delete or rename the folders, I get the error "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk." This is just on the newly created folders. I can add/delete/rename any other folder or file.

Next time I will lock it down.

Thanks,
Sean

 

[seanbrown93]

BTW, I full admin rights on the server and have taken ownership, but I still cannot delete them. I have also tried through DOS, but no luck.

 

[sseaner]

I am also having the same problem. Any ideas?

 

[seanbrown93]

I ended up doing it all through DOS instead of finding a utility or something. Each file will have an 8 character DOS name associated with it and you can delete that through DOS. Just go into that directory and do a dir and you should see the DOS filename.

 

[benbino]

When you say "in DOS", do you mean a DOS window through the cmd.exe command? The same thing happened to me, with quite a few nested folders and files. Most of them contain invalid filesnames and characters, but when I try to delete even those with valid filenames, I get "Access Denied" messages, or "Could not find the source file or folder."
I'm having no success, so far.

 

[JackyZhang]

In DOS, and key in "Dir /x" which will get short file name format, and try to delete file with short file or folder name.

 

[GlenJohnson]

To get to dos, go to start, run then type cmd. This will give you a dos box. Good luck.

Glen A. Johnson
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