Can't delete a file that's stuck on my desktop

[Mzmkont]

So hello everyone,
I'm facing this problem and it's getting on my nerves. So one day I downloaded a file, extracted it, noticed that it's for mac so tried deleting it. So yeah. The problem is that the folder that I extracted on my desktop is still there. There a bunch of files in there that I can't delete (other ones I was able to delete). I tried using Unlocker and it didn't find any processes in there. Windows say that the file can't be found and it's not even there. And even if I go deeper in to the folder and I try to delete something it gives me a long error about the file beeing unavailable and so on. I even tried using some cmd stuff, but I can't get any like, nicknames or shorter name of a file (I'm talking about the name of the file that shows up in cmd after typing a bunch of cmds. For example ~AC~ or something like that, I believe that you understand what I mean. I even tried some programs, but they didn't work.

So yeah, I don't really know what to do, it's just siting on my desktop and that's it, but It's getting on my nerves, to be honest.

So is there a way to fix this? Like to delete it or something?

P.S. By the way, just tried using WinDirStat to delete the file and it gave me this error - Error 0x80004005: Unspecified error.

 

[saywhut]

Open up the command line with administrator privileges, then type the following:
DEL /F /Q /A <File Path>

Where filepath is the location of the file.

 

[Mzmkont]

And how should I write the file path? Like S:/Users/My Name/Desktop/Filename ?

 

[saywhut]

Correct, something like this:
C:\Users\YOURUSER\Desktop\FILENAME

 

[Mzmkont]

Hm, doesn't want to work, when I press enter it just says C:\Windows\system32

By the way, my desktop is just on the other hard drive

 

[saywhut]

are you putting the extension as well? I just tested the command and it works.

At the very end, you have to type in the filename you're deleting and the file extention.

Example:
DEL /F /Q /A C:\Users\YOURUSER\Desktop\FILENAME.exe

 

[Mzmkont]

What's the file extension for a folder?

 

[saywhut]

If you want to delete the folder, just type in the folder name, no extension.

 

[Mzmkont]

Still the same thing..:/

 

[bjornl]

Create another user profile. Reboot and Login with the new profile and repeat your attempts to delete the file (on the off chance this file is locked by some process you have running.

 

[rgd1101]

what is the exact file name?

 

[saywhut]

Yes, what's the EXACT path of the folder you are trying to delete? I take it the files are inside the folder.

 

[Mzmkont]

Here you go, I type this command
DEL /F /Q /A C:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd

 

[saywhut]

Open up a PowerShell command window with Admin privileges and type in:
Remove-Item C:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd

If that doesn't work, type in:
Remove-Item C:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd\*
Remove-Item C:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd

 

[Mzmkont]

Remove-Item : Could not find a part of the path 'S:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd\MBL_Mac_Full\Documentation\Magic Bullet Looks
v1.0 Help\Source_Files\images\handson_mode'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-Item S:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (S:\Kasparas\Desktop\asd:String) [Remove-Item], DirectoryNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

Didn't want to work, here's the error that I'm getting

 

[rgd1101]

so it a directory and not a file?

 

[saywhut]

Is it the c: or s: drive? Make sure you're using the appropriate drive letter.

I think we missed "users" in the path. Try the same command with the following path:
Remove-Item C:\users\Kasparas\Desktop\asd

If it doesn't work, try:
Remove-Item C:\users\Kasparas\Desktop\asd\*
Remove-Item C:\users\Kasparas\Desktop\asd

 

[Mzmkont]

I guess it's a directory, yes. It's on the S drive. And there's no /user/ because I manually moved my dekstop/documents etc to my hard drive (to the S drive) under the name \Kasparas\

 

[saywhut]

Open up a command line and type in "dir <path>"

Do the path up to the desktop only, not the folder. Does the folder show up there?

 

[Mzmkont]

Yes it does

 

[saywhut]

At this point I'd have to look at it personally unless someone has other ideas.

 

[Mzmkont]

Could you help me using teamviewer?

 

[saywhut]

Message me.

 

[saywhut]

Mission accomplished!

 

[fepeticov]

Hey, I have the exaclty same problem, but "saywhut" didn`t acctualy post it here. Can you/someone tell me the answer?