An interesting conundrum

[Glenn Boyce]

I have just done an update on my application which I have located on a shared drive at work. 3 people have access to it and I had put a shortcut to their desk tops. All has wroked well but I find that I can't delete the old version! Would this have something to do with the desk top links? As I will be refining the application over time I really dont want to have a pile of old versions on the drive that I can't remove. Any suggestions?
kind regards

Glenn Boyce

[Mark]

Hi Glenn,

What do you mean, "can't delete"? You look at your screen and can't find the delete key? It is on your keyboard!
More seriously, you'll need to provide a little more information before anyone can say anything meaningful about it. Error messages? Strange behaviour? Other problems?

Best regards,

Mark

[Glenn Boyce]

Gee. That was quick. I get a dialogue box headed up Cannot delete "XXXXXXX" : Access is denied
the body of the dialogue box says:
make sure the disc is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently being used.

I have deleted the shortcuts from all our disk tops and the applications (I actually have two old ones) are not being used

[Mark]

Hi Glenn,

It is possible that the file is shared. As long as it is available to clients on the network, it can't be deleted. This doesn't always happen to all shared files, but I know it can occur. Unshare the file and you might be able to delete it.

Another possibility is that the files have been opened but not properly closed by a remote application. The only way to get rid of the files is to force-delete them. On Mac OS X you'd sudo the rm command from the terminal and Windows you need to execute the del /f command from the command line. The /f option ignores any read-only options.

Let me know if this works.

Best,

Mark

[Glenn Boyce]

Thanks Mark
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the cmd screen and functions although I know how to start it up. If the file directory is S:\RAPFAST\FFF Rapfast1, then what would the syntax be to get rid of it?
cheers

Glenn

[Glenn Boyce]

Hi Mark
Looked up commands oon the net. Can see the folders using DIR but can't delete them . Says it cannot find them. can't see whats in the folder either using DIR.