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   Message 971 of 3,371   
   Peter Flass to All   
   Re: ghost files   
   10 May 11 14:05:27   
   
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   From: Peter Flass    
      
   On 5/10/2011 1:17 PM, James Moe wrote:   
   > 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"   
   >   
   Can you delete them using wildcards?  PM directory display?   
      
      
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