ports backup corrupted windows - addendum
Graham North
graham.north at telus.net
Mon May 9 23:36:54 PDT 2005
Discovered that ports Japanese has a port called "prn" - this is a
"privileged" name in Windows - of course when I tried to blow away the
whole ports backup it choked up and left a 97MB file hanging.
I will try to find out how to deal with privileged file deletion in
Windows via other forums (using command prompt "del" doesn't work).
Cheers, Graham/
Graham North wrote:
> Okay, I know it sounds daft and I hope that it is not too far out
> there....
> Some time ago when loading a new FreeBSD, I decided to back up the
> ports collection onto my Windows XP hardrive.
>
> Today, I decided to blow it away - but it won't go! It moved from C:
> drive to the recycle bin, and most got emptied out however some
> (97.2MB) is "sticking". No matter that I try to "empty recycle bin"
> it gives me a message "cannot remove folder prn: The parameter is
> incorrect.
> Everyting else in the bin was emptied but now the recycle bin seems
> broken when I try to delete other files - it is really weird. Could
> some set of Unix file permissions have thrown the Windows box for a loop?
> Any ideas will be appreciated.
> Thanks, Graham/
>
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