Cannot Delete File On Nas Under Win Xp Home

[p23185]

Does anyone know a trick that will allow me to delete a file on a D-Link NAS (DNS-323) network drive running under Win XP Home?

History- I backed up all my files from an older Netgear NAS (SC101) onto the desktop SATA drive temporarly. When I went to transfer all the backed-up files/folders, my AVG anti-virus caught an .eml file that claimed it needed to be quarantined because of pop-ups, so I let that be done (my mistake). A couple of 'too long file names' caused me to stop the transfer and start over - so I deleted all folders on the new NAS. Once Win explorer detects a problem, you do not know how much was copied and how much was not - it just abrubtly stops. Now I cannot delete the folder that is missing the pop up. Temporarily I ignored that folder and just marked it as junk. I sucessfully transfered the thousands of folders/files onto the new D-Link NAS. Now when I go back to clean up the 'stuck' folder it will not let me delete it and it tells me - 'cannot remove folder xxxx: the directory is not empty'.

But when you look in Win explorer there is nothing in the folder - it is indeed empty. How can I get rid of this folder or do I just have to leave it there forever?

[Stringent]

Make sure all hidden files and folders are shown. In Vista I think its Windows Button -> in the search type Folder options to check.

[peterb]

Depending on the filke system in use on the NAS box, there may be a hidden file called "lost and found" (it is associated with ext2, 3 and 4 file systems).

If you set you Windows machine to display hidden or system files, you will be able to delete it.

Even if the file system is NFTS you may still have hidden files in there.

However only delete thes if you really do want to delete the containing folder

If you find that you still can't delete the empty folder, it may be a permissions issue. You may need to take ownership of the folder or as a last resort you may need to log into the NAS box as root and manually delete the folder.

[freakyshadows]

try 'unlocker' its freeware. Can unlock most files that cant be deleted, if it cant it will tell you why! Really useful to remove those stubborn files

[freakyshadows]

heres a link http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/