<michaeld121@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I’ve got a file that appears to exist, but when I try & delete it I
get: “Cannot delete …. Cannot find the specified file”. I created it
as a.txt with a long-ish file name (76 chars) as a reminder, but it
now has no extension & is zero bytes. I can’t open it and the
properties doesn’t give me much info.

It’s on a drive (h that’s sync’d to a network and only appears when
I’m not connected to the network. This makes it difficult to use
things like ccleaner, deletefxpfiles, chkdsk etc.

I’ve tried deleting it from a command line (tells me it doesn't exist)
in safe mode (couldn't log on) deleting the folder and a bunch of
other things … but no joy.

Any ideas?

Michael

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Does the phantom file have a name?

You might try creating a text file in Notepad and then saving it with the
same name as the unwanted file. Hopefully, this will bring up a dialog box
which says:

H:\DirectoryName\TextFile already exists. Do you want to replace it? YES/NO.

If you get this far, click YES.

Now maybe you can delete the phantom file which has been replaced by a real
file.