Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Problem with del... Message-ID: <1990Dec16.075932.10067@uwasa.fi> Date: 16 Dec 90 07:59:32 GMT References: <4043@uniol.UUCP> <28836@usc> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 21 In article <28836@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: >In article otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: >>In article <4043@uniol.UUCP> Kai.Buerhoop@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Kai Buerhoop) writes: >> I got a problem with the 'del'-command. >> I've got a certain file, which I can normally list with 'dir', >> but which, if I want to rename it, copy it or delete it cannot be >> modified. DOS says: "Cannot find file" > >How about a simple explanation. Consider a directory containing >two files .. rest of the valid, possible cause deleted ... A very simple question to the original poster of the problem. Have you run chkdsk? Another potential cause besides Ajay's blanks-in-the-name is that there is something wrong with the file or the fat. Has been know to happen. .................................................................. Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun