Hi Lionel,
I learned from long coding experience, that unless you are absolutely
certain that deleting a folder is OK, that it should be renamed instead
(99.9999% of the time). The folder "C:\Lionel" could be renamed
"C:\Lionel-DELETE". Leave the folder alone for at least a few days
and do
your normal work. If at that time, the "missing" files have caused no
problems, only then delete the folder (they are missing because any program
depending on them cannot find them in the renamed directory). If, by some
chance Windows will not allow you to delete the folder, reboot and before
doing anything else, delete the folder. If Windows still will not allow you
to delete the folder open Windows in Safe mode and delete it.
Good luck.
Best
L.P. Carhartt
MasterDATA
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From: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of Harry M. Ward
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:27 AM
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] Re: problem deleting a folder
Lionel:
I read your request, and Kees' response. Perhaps I have been doing it
"wrong" all these years. I just go to Windows Explorer and delete
whatever MS data folder I want to remove, OR if I want to just delete
all the stocks in the folder, I open MS, open the folder in question,
select all the stocks, and just Delete them.
This has worked (so far) on both my 8.01 and 10.1.
Harry
On 5 May 2008 11:05:40 -0000, "Lionel Issen" lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:lissen%40sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
>>I am trying to delete a subfolder from my data folder. The first time I
>>tried to simply delete the folder from the data list. Big mistake. When
I
>>opened MS I got an error message that folder X could not be found. MS
hung
>>up, I could only close it down. I finally had to reinstall the deleted
>>folder in order to be able to run MS. I have deleted folders in the
past
>>without any problems.