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   Message 970 of 3,371   
   James Moe to All   
   Re: ghost files   
   10 May 11 10:17:28   
   
   Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10   
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   properly   
   From: James Moe    
      
   On 05/09/2011 10:50 AM, piesse wrote:   
   > I have in my hard disk a certain number of files that I can list with   
   > "dir" bun cannot open, copy, delete, change-check attributes or rename:   
   > attrib, copy, ren etc all pretend that these files don't exist.   
   > A common characteristic of these files is that they all have an accented   
   > letter in the file name.    
   >    
   > how do i get rid of them?   
   >    
     As Trevor noted, they were likely to have been created with a   
   different codepage.   
     What is your current code page? (See config.sys for a   
   "codepage=xxx,yyy" entry.) You can change the code page with the "chcp"   
   command.   
      
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   James Moe   
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