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For some background, I'm on Windows 10 however with the files I'm going to talk about I've used them in shared folders with Ubuntu VMs before.

In a folder on my machine, there is a file named '...' I really don't know where this file came from. It was inside a directory which contained one of my programming projects, in which I was using git. However, I cannot delete this file in any means I've tried so far. When attempting a simple right-click + delete, I get the message: "Error 0x80070091 The directory is not empty."

When I attempt to delete from powershell using del or rm, I get the message: "When attempting to del : An object at the specified path C:\Users\mdmil\Concurrency\... does not exist."

I cannot rename the file by any means. When I try to rename from powershell, I get the same aforementioned error. When I try to rename from file explorer, I get a "this file is open in another program" error.

I even got desparate enough to try to share the folder with a Linux VM, and attempt to delete the file via the inode number to no avail.

When I attempt to open the file in notepad++, no file opens. I presume it is because it is trying to interpret it as a directory due to the ... naming.

I'm currently at a loss as to how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated!

mdmiller002
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If you go to the directory where the ... file is, then type:

type dir /x

you should see the file and its 8.3 name, eg:-

 Directory of C:\Users\CurrentUser\Temp

09/12/2018  23:09    <DIR>                       .
09/12/2018  23:09    <DIR>                       ..
09/12/2018  23:09                 0 A535~1       ...

You can now use this 8.3 name to delete it, eg:

del A535~1
AFH
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I found a fix to the issue. It's not a great solution, but it worked. I opened git bash to that folder, use "rm -rf ..." and that deleted the file in question. Still haven't figured out how to fix it with native Windows tools.

mdmiller002
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