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Deleting a file that doesn't exist? [SOLVED]
flamebroiledchicken
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Wow, sorry to have two threads going at pretty much the same time but this has been bugging me for a few days now.
I was downloading a song (am I allowed to say that?) from a file-sharing program, and in the middle of the download, I decided to abort it. A while later, I was looking through my music folder and noticed the incomplete file sitting there, so I tried to delete it. It wouldn't let me, because I still had the file-sharing program open, so I was told "This file is in use by another program". Fair enough.
However, after I closed the program and went to delete the file, I got the message "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk" which, as I understand it, means that the file cannot be deleted because the computer can't find it, because it doesn't exist.
So now I have this icon sitting in my music folder called INCOMPLETE~[song name] and no way to get rid of it.
Help?
I was downloading a song (am I allowed to say that?) from a file-sharing program, and in the middle of the download, I decided to abort it. A while later, I was looking through my music folder and noticed the incomplete file sitting there, so I tried to delete it. It wouldn't let me, because I still had the file-sharing program open, so I was told "This file is in use by another program". Fair enough.
However, after I closed the program and went to delete the file, I got the message "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk" which, as I understand it, means that the file cannot be deleted because the computer can't find it, because it doesn't exist.
So now I have this icon sitting in my music folder called INCOMPLETE~[song name] and no way to get rid of it.
Help?
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