Phantom File in Downloads Folder?
Angie:
Ahhh, that worked, Venusy! Yes, I can now see the offending file, along with 6 others with similar names.
However, I still get the same error when I try to delete the Downloads folder. Is it okay to delete CA183YZ9 and the other files individually? Or will this screw up Windows somehow?
Thanks for the quick response!
Venusy:
Try it, you have nothing to lose other than your downloads folder, and you've already moved everything you want from that to the desktop.
Angie:
Tried to delete it; got a different error message:
Cannot delete file. Unable to read from the source file or disk.
Grr, this is really frustrating. >:(
Magicmoon:
Go back to the folder options where Venusy told you, and also uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'. Don't undo the other changes she told you to do.
Now the files should read CA183YZ9.something.
What is the something? Are they package files or something else? Since you said there are 5-6 of these lurking files, do they all end in the same thing?
If one of the files are borked and you try to delete all of them at the same time (by trying to delete the main folder, or by highlighting all the files and choosing delete), Windows will 'get stuck' on the borked file and not only not delete that file, but not even try to delete any files after that. Have you tried deleting each file one at a time? Do they all give you the error message or do some of them delete correctly?
If the files are NOT package files, post the names of them here AFTER you have unhidden their extensions. You may have a virus or other malware on your system, although I have never seen these types of files show up in this particular folder, it certainly is something that is possible. I'm concerned about why they were 'hidden' in the first place.
J. M. Pescado:
It sounds like you need to run a chkdisk, your hard drive may have screwed up data.
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