Peculiar Folder

[Gongalong]

Hi folks,

 

One of our ex-students was obviously a clever little blighter and has given a folder a blank name.

 

I cannot delete anything within it or rename it, and have tried Unlocker also without success.

 

Any ideas on how I can rename it to something sensible to work with it?

 

(The folder resides on a 2008 R2 server, so this seemed as good a sub-forum as any to ask)

 

TIA

[elsiegee40]

Did you try taking ownership of the folder before attempting to rename/delete?

[elsiegee40]

This thread recommends Unlocker

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2000-2003/68633-cant-delete-pesky-folders-space-end-their-names.html

[witch]

Um, he says he has tried Unlocker...

Have you tried via a command prompt?

[SC92]

Where's the folder stored? Perhaps try to delete the folder above it, got to be worth a pop?

[Gongalong]

Looks like a DIR /X has helped. That gave me the 8.3 name, which was a control code, and I could rename from there. Huzzah!