Does the file exist in a sub-directory of another folder ? ( Not in
the Root folder of the Drive ). If so, Use Windows Explorer to
move ( Drag and Drop ) the file into the Root Folder and then
try to delete it. Also from a Command Prompt try to remove the
file by using Quotation marks around the path/filename.

<michaeld121@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On May 28, 5:31 pm, "One Shot Scot" <so...@gun.com> wrote:
> 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 Now maybe you can delete the phantom file which has been replaced by a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.

Yes it does have a name - 76 chars long, but with no file extension at
the end.

I've gave your (useful) suggestion a go - but still no joy. I got the
same error message I normally get (ie "Cannot find the specified
file...").

It's weird as when I go to the folder from a cmd line & type DIR it
shows the file (at 0 bytes) and the creation date & time. However
when I use DEL (or anything else) to try and get rid of it - it then
tells me "The system cannot find the file specified."

It almost seems like there's some metadata somewhere that thinks
something exists, although it doesn't.

Michael