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How To Delete Those Undeleteable Files (System Cannot Find The Source File)

Method  # 1 ::.

For those who use some other character map other than standard US ASCII, there sometimes happen some files, who has some nasty characters in its name, which appears in your Windows Explorer but when you try to delete it, it says “system cannot find the file”. In order to delete -or rename, whichever you like- that nasty file, you can use any ftp client with a visual GUI, like WS-FTP or so. In the ftp client's browser window, go to the folder containing that file and edit/delete it in there.

Method # 2 ::.

Delete An "undeletable" File. (Cannot Find The Source File Specified).
Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. By Opening Start>Run>and Type “Cmd” (without quotes)
Close all open programs.
Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.
Leave Task Manager open.
Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in.
At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete.
Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
Close Task Manager.

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Method # 3 ::.

Open Notepad.exe
Click File>Save As..>
Locate the folder where ur undeletable file is
Choose 'All files' from the file type box
click once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the 'filename' box
put a " at the start and end of the filename
(the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)
click save,

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