I was trying to save some information from X. I saved it as a PDF file but couldn't open it. I assumed it was corrupted or didn't save properly so I tried to delete it. Couldn't even do that.
I noticed when I saved the info, the first few lines from the article where used as the title. It created an extra long name. I'm convinced the problem was the extra long name. So i tried renaming it. Did not work.
I tried a program called “Unlocker” from : www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/
A program I installed a while ago. I just right-clicked on the file and clicked on “Unlocker” in the menu.
A little box is supposed to open to give me the option to “Delete, Rename or Move”. It didn't. I restarted the system thinking that Windows had the file locked. It didn't help. I scanned the hard drive for errors and found none.
Finally it clicked in my mind to try the command prompt. In this case I went to the CMD prompt by going to the top of the File Manager window, clicking on path name to highlight it. Typed in CMD and hit enter. Opens a command prompt already on that folder.
To get the file name right, I went to the file manager again and high-lighted the file then clicked on F2 to rename. I then right-clicked on the high-lighted name and clicked on “copy”. Then I went to the command prompt and typed:
del “filename.pdf”
I used “Ctrl+V” to paste in the name.
Be sure to put the quotes around the name. The first time I tried this I didn't highlight the extension part of the file and then typed it in not realizing there was a space before the extension. Had to do it a second time but it worked.