Cannot delete or rename or moving directories

Just wanted to add that the offending file is named APP. I cannot delete
it, yet with Windows Explorer, I can rename it!

I renamed it to TheFile, did a dir /x and saw THEFIL~1, next I rd THEFIL~1
and it says that the directory is not empty. Del THEFIL~1 doesn't work
either.

Can someone give me a hint as to what is going on?

Thank you.
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Download Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com and find which
process(s) have a handle open to the filename in question.

It is these open handles that are preventing you from
deleting/renaming/moving directories, so you must get rid of all the open
handles. Usually, you can only kill the offending process to free up the
handle, but please be careful of the process you kill -- some may be system
critical, so you need to know what you are doing. You have been warned.

This problem actually has nothing to do with IIS. If you stopped IIS, all
its processes are gone from memory, along with their open handles.

Your previous problems with FTP was because someone used FTP to create
filenames that Explorer did not like -- so you had to use dir /x tricks to
delete it. That situation had nothing to do with open handles to those
files, so we're talking about apples/oranges here.

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//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Fernando L. Arredondo" <FernandoLArredondo.DeleteThis@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Just wanted to add that the offending file is named APP. I cannot delete
it, yet with Windows Explorer, I can rename it!

I renamed it to TheFile, did a dir /x and saw THEFIL~1, next I rd THEFIL~1
and it says that the directory is not empty. Del THEFIL~1 doesn't work
either.

Can someone give me a hint as to what is going on?

Thank you.
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David, thank you for providing the mentioned suggestions. I appreciate it
but it did not work. I am at a complete loss. I've had the server running
for about 2 years and have found offending files before and wacked them.
Here is another description of what I tried today:

Before renaming, I first stopped ftp, then the website. There are no ISAPI
dlls running on the server by the way. The sites consist of static html
files. I tried to rename the entire site using Windows Explorer but I could
not. I focused on one particular site and got a message that a file was
open.



The offending file turned out to be a directory within the site.
Originally, it was called APP, then I renamed it to theDir with Windows
Explorer with no problem. Then I did the following:



* Performing dir /x within the directory displays absolutely nothing.
Appears to be empty.



* Trying to remove the directory with rd or del at the command prompt does
not delete it. I get a 'directory is not empty' message.



* I tried Process Explorer v8.52 and searched for the handle called theDir
and it was not open.



* Rebooting the server and trying the above again made no difference.



Please note that I have used the deletion commands above in the past with no
problem at all by determining the DOS file name and then removing it. I did
some experimentation with Process Explorer on my desktop PC and I was able
to determine if both files and/or directories were open. Unfortunately, I
had no success whatsoever on my remote (leased) webserver running W2000
Server and IIS 5.



If someone could provide some additional suggestions/comments, I would
sincerely appreciate it. For example, are there any other deletion
utilities that I should attempt to use?
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