What the hell is this?!

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I was browsing through my directory of legitimately owned album mp3s (:shifty:) and i discovered this file (see pic)

The file is undeletable, and when i try to move/copy/rename/delete it i get this message:

Here are the system properties for the file:

I would appreciate some feedback and solutions for getting rid of this file as its really spooking me. The only explanation i can think of is that MSN messenger somehow made it as i was sending a dashboard comfessional song to a friend and the name of the file was squished down into DA9439 or whatever. Please help.

[sanctified Veteran]

your posted pics arent working

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,Jul 6 2003, 22:55] your posted pics arent working

Yup, sorted it.

[eevoo]

,Jul 6 2003, 17:55] your posted pics arent working

i can see them.

did you try booting into safe mode to see if you could delete it?

or try deleting it in a cmd prompt.

last resort, move mp3s to somewhere else and format that drive, if it is a seprate drive ofcourse.

[lammmetak]

what about scanning ur disk for errors maybe that will help

[cq_]

norton utilities "wipe info" will erase it...

[empty]

i can see them.

did you try booting into safe mode to see if you could delete it?

or try deleting it in a cmd prompt.

last resort, move mp3s to somewhere else and format that drive, if it is a seprate drive ofcourse.

The problem is that i have so many mp3s and other files on that drive that i dont another drive big enough to hold them all :\ Even if i partitition the free space im short a few gigs :\

[Hypoxiaicon]

Its disguised to look like a .INK file? except has a like space thing next to it?

Mimio Ink File

or

Pantone Reference File

But.. hmm boot in safe mode and be rid of it (if you want rid)

[Jason]

If its NTFS is your account on the ACL ?, if there are no ACL's in the ACE then you won't have permission to do anything with it.

[empty]

norton utilities "wipe info" will erase it...

Just tried, wipe info wont acknowledge that the file is there, i drag and drop and browse to it manually and it doesnt do anything :|

[sanctified Veteran]

now I see them, try deleting it in safe mode like eevoo said

[eevoo]

could it be some kinda nameing problem?

i know on the macs i use sometimes when we transfer files from mac to pc

there are characters that the pc hates so you can see the file but you can't do anything to it

just like your problem. and the name looks normal cause the pc just changes the bad character to something

it knows.

[empty]

Safe mode = doesnt work and neither does booting into the command prompt.

Also for clarification, this is XP and just a mac theme.

[BTallack]

Sometimes NTFS or FAT32 will display a file that has actually been deleted, a chkdsk should fix the problem if that's the case. It looks like it was a file that may have been created as a temporary file by an audio player of some sort. If all else fails, try putting the hard drive in another computer as a slave and deleting it there.

[Jason]

If its NTFS is your account on the ACL ?, if there are no ACL's in the ACE then you won't have permission to do anything with it

[eevoo]

Also for clarification, this is XP and just a mac theme.

ya i could tell that but i did not know if you had other comps or if you frequently transfer files between pc and mac,

or if your frinds have macs and may of sent you this, the list of reasons i said this goes on.

just tryin to cover all bases here man. :p

[TwiztedCam]

Have you tried running any spy/adware removers?

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ Download that and see if it pops up in the list, if so check it then click Fix now, or something of the like.

[Kasandoro]

Okay, this is simple. The Box character is binary for a space that is not recognized by your file system. You'll have to do something like del "*.ink"

[akaj23]

If you're lazy, you can try going to the command prompt and typing "attrib +s +h <file>" so you don't have to look at it, even if it's still there. ;)

[sef]

Try killit file deleter, its a tiny program that works well.

http://asia.cnet.com/downloads/pc/swinfo/0...9019823s,00.htm

[ceminess]

if all else fails try defragmenting

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Similar to what kandoro says, but go into safe mode, preferably DOS mode, and then browse (CD) to the directory where you have the file (D:\My Documents\My Music\Playlists in this case) and type in

del da5467*.*

that should hopefully delete it for you ...

[SunnyB]

Rename the file then delete it.

It has to be done through windows and not is DOS.

Possibly in safe mode.

I have seen these before and have been successful

with renaming then deleting.

Otherwise move everything else in the directory to a diff dir then

use a wildcard rename. del *.*k in that dir.

[Jason]

read my post you need to see if you are on the Access Control List if not you cannot do anything, if there are no Access Control Entries then you need to add your account.

This is if you are using NTFS

[empty]

Ok firstly, just ran chkdisk to no avail. Im abotu to try all the suggestions on page 2 of the thread. Also thanks guys for all the help, its much appreciated.