The folder's name is in green text instead of black like all the others, and I am even able to rename the folder. However, when I try to delete it, it says "Cannot remove folder: Cannot find the specified file. How can I get rid of this file? I can't even run an unattended backup overnight, because the backup software gets hung up on this file and I have to click through a dialog box complaining about this folder before the backup can continue.
Please be careful with it, as there are sometimes good reasons that you can't delete a file! Also note that it adds this as an option to your right click menu - you might want to remove it again to stop yourself using it accidentally Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. I would consider doing this from Powershell or some other OS-level approach rather than have SQL Server access the file system any more than it has to.
Like string handling, this just isn't its forte Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The step failed. It still fails with the same error message, so we cannot use that to get a 'false positive'. I do think that the error is happening because either The folder does not exist The service account does not have permissions on the folder When executing on a folder where i knew that my service account did not have permissions on, i got the same error.
The step succeeded. Improve this answer. Randi Vertongen Randi Vertongen Cancel Submit. Ethan B. Independent Advisor. Bill, Thanks for the information. I've tried handling this with another community member but with a JPG image, so this will be interesting to tackle. If you have 7-Zip installed on your computer, skip ahead below in this post. Let me know what happens, good luck.
For technical support inquiries, Dennis can be reached via Live chat online this site using the Zopim Chat service currently located at the bottom left of the screen ; optionally, you can contact Dennis through the website contact form. I ran into this same issue when trying to remove a borked box. Box will allow for absurdly long file names, and I suspect this was the root cause as well.
This technique literally gave me back about 40GB of hard drive space! I was about to do a clean install or buy a new drive. Thank you so much. This is not a Windows 10 bug. Beginning with Windows 95, when Windows began allowing long file names, it has always restricted the full path name to characters. Windows 10 - as of the Anniversary Edition aka version - actually allows you to disable this restriction, effectively giving you unlimited path name length technically, it's still limited to 32, characters by the NTFS file system itself, but no one in their right mind will ever come anywhere close to that.
The problem with this is that many older programs, particularly bit programs, still won't respect or recognize anything longer than the old character limit, so enabling long path names could end up causing you more problems that it solves. Hey, new guys here. You have the most comprehensive solution to this trouble that I've been able to locate AND it's relatively recent.
I have a scheduled task running some VBScript running a snapshot backup process. Originally, I mapped drives to the source and target folders so I worry less on whose computer it's running, meaning the mapping is a hold-over from the original code, partially in place to reduce the characters needed to reference the filename s. I have confirmed, the following:. These are the short names for their respective folders The overall lengths of the filenames without the shortnames never exceeds chars, Even if I substitute the full path instead of the drive letter.
Not all filenames include the 'safe' special characters, so even that's covered. This is a Linux-based NAS that you may want to point to as the source of the trouble, but and this MAY be key here it's only happening with the remote user. There are two other users whose files are targeted by this same code and they never have any troubles. This is lengthy and I apologize for that. So, I try to explain as much as I can in advance of the misunderstanding.
Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Jump to Navigation. Search form Search. Infopackets Reader Tom T. Dealing with the 'The system cannot find the file specified' Error The first thing I did was to reset the discretionary access control lists and ownership on the files and folder recursively using the ' icacls ' and ' takeown ' programs. Next, run CHKDSK checkdisk on the drive to ensure that your file system is not dirty which can also prevent you from deleting a file or folder.
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