blog emberke » delete http://www.emberke.ro/blog acelaşi lume, o viziune diferită Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:13:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to delete files with weird characters in there name [Windows] http://www.emberke.ro/blog/how-to-delete-files-with-weird-characters-in-there-name-windows.html http://www.emberke.ro/blog/how-to-delete-files-with-weird-characters-in-there-name-windows.html#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:23:05 +0000 emberke http://www.emberke.ro/blog/?p=241 If you have files on your system which have special chars like “º” and you can’t access or delete them, windows keeps telling you “File not found” although the file is clearly there and visible, you should try this to delete it:

Start -> Run -> cmd.exe (a black background terminal window appears)

Type:

del <path to your folder holding the weird files>\*.*

And the files are deleted.

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