Ntfs delete invalid files

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Add a comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back For more information about disabling 8. If you do so, start at the root folder or any other convenient place. Then rename folders so that they have shorter names. If this step doesn't resolve this issue, for example, if a file is more than folders deep, go to Resolution 4.

Map a drive to a folder inside the structure of the path of the target file or folder. This method shortens the virtual path. In this path, the total character count is over characters.

To short the length of this path, to 73 characters, map a drive to SubfolderName4. If resolutions 1, 2, and 3 aren't convenient or don't resolve the issue, create a network share that's as deep in the folder tree as you can.

Then rename the folders by accessing the share. Many Windows programs expect the maximum path length to be shorter than characters. These programs only allocate enough internal storage to handle these typical paths. NTFS doesn't have this limit, and it can hold much longer paths. You may experience this issue if you create a share at some point in your folder structure that's already fairly deep, and then create a deep structure below that point by using the share.

Some tools that operate locally on the folder tree may not be able to traverse the whole tree starting from the root. You may have to use these tools in a special way so that they can traverse the share. Typically, you can manage files by using the software that creates them.

You can typically delete files that are created on a share by using the same share. If the file name includes a reserved name in the Win32 name space, such as lpt1, you can't delete the file. To resolve this issue, use a non-Win32 program to rename the file. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use.

General discussion. How can I delete files and folders with invalid names. I have tried to rename them but have been unable to. Share Flag. All Comments. I am having a problem that is actually two problems in one. So, I can't rename the file because it is hidden, and I can't unhide it because it is an invalid name. I tried viewing hidden files from the MAC but cannot see or interact with this file from the mac either. It sees all other hidden files, just not this one for some reason.

I had a similar issue but not with a mac file. I think I ended up writing a quick VBscript program to delete the file. The name of the file had an invalid character in it, I was able to include that invalid character in the vbscript.