Hans
December 14th 03, 03:16 PM
Boy do I fell dumb! Due to Norton the recycle bin wasn't
obvious. I went through disk cleanup instead and that
cured the problem. Thanks!
>-----Original Message-----
>Are you able to empty the Recycle bin, and does that fix
>it?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>When I try to delete files in a folder "RECYCLED": I
>get
>>a message that "it can't be deleted because another user
>>is occupied" (even when disconected from the internet).
>>When I try to delete files in the same folder in smaller
>>groups they regenerate or are repopulated quicker than I
>>can delete them.
>>
>>This folder on my hard drive named "RECYCLED" contains
>>several subfolders labled "dcXXX" where "XXX" are
>>numbers. These and the "RECYCLED" folder contain lots
>>of ".jpg" files.
>>
>>This machince is using Windows XP.
>>
>>A couple of years ago I saw this problem solved on a
>>Windows 98 SE machine by booting in DOS and deleting
>>the "c:\ RECYCLED" folder. This does not seem to be
>>possible with Windows XP.
>>.
>>
>.
>
obvious. I went through disk cleanup instead and that
cured the problem. Thanks!
>-----Original Message-----
>Are you able to empty the Recycle bin, and does that fix
>it?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>When I try to delete files in a folder "RECYCLED": I
>get
>>a message that "it can't be deleted because another user
>>is occupied" (even when disconected from the internet).
>>When I try to delete files in the same folder in smaller
>>groups they regenerate or are repopulated quicker than I
>>can delete them.
>>
>>This folder on my hard drive named "RECYCLED" contains
>>several subfolders labled "dcXXX" where "XXX" are
>>numbers. These and the "RECYCLED" folder contain lots
>>of ".jpg" files.
>>
>>This machince is using Windows XP.
>>
>>A couple of years ago I saw this problem solved on a
>>Windows 98 SE machine by booting in DOS and deleting
>>the "c:\ RECYCLED" folder. This does not seem to be
>>possible with Windows XP.
>>.
>>
>.
>