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Permanently deleting music folders
  1. #1


    Kara Guest

    Permanently deleting music folders

    I recieved 50G of music from my friend and saved it to my hard drive with the
    intent of deleting everything I didn't want. The problem I'm having is just
    that. When I select delete from WMP and computer, it continues to the popup
    that says its calculating the time required, but that is it. It just hangs
    out with the green time bar running left to right at a speed of "0 bytes/sec."

    I can easily delete my entire library from media player(which I did to see
    if it made any difference), and create new folders (which I tried to move
    everything I wanted to delete, in hopes of deleting that folder later), but I
    can't delete or move any of the folders from the computer.

    Anybody ever heard of this?




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  2. #2


    Bob Guest

    Re: Permanently deleting music folders

    Open an Administrator Command Prompt
    Type attrib -r -a -s -h del [drive] path] [filename] Press Enter.
    -------
    *Report back, please*


    "Kara" <Kara@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:34FDDC28-483A-4ACE-845B-7A6FE09C7017@xxxxxx

    >I recieved 50G of music from my friend and saved it to my hard drive with
    >the
    > intent of deleting everything I didn't want. The problem I'm having is
    > just
    > that. When I select delete from WMP and computer, it continues to the
    > popup
    > that says its calculating the time required, but that is it. It just
    > hangs
    > out with the green time bar running left to right at a speed of "0
    > bytes/sec."
    >
    > I can easily delete my entire library from media player(which I did to see
    > if it made any difference), and create new folders (which I tried to move
    > everything I wanted to delete, in hopes of deleting that folder later),
    > but I
    > can't delete or move any of the folders from the computer.
    >
    > Anybody ever heard of this?
    >

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    Tim Guest

    RE: Permanently deleting music folders


    Hi Kara

    I'm having the same problems with my old Zune music files.
    Can't delete or anything

    Have you found an answer??

    "Kara" wrote:

    > I recieved 50G of music from my friend and saved it to my hard drive with the
    > intent of deleting everything I didn't want. The problem I'm having is just
    > that. When I select delete from WMP and computer, it continues to the popup
    > that says its calculating the time required, but that is it. It just hangs
    > out with the green time bar running left to right at a speed of "0 bytes/sec."
    >
    > I can easily delete my entire library from media player(which I did to see
    > if it made any difference), and create new folders (which I tried to move
    > everything I wanted to delete, in hopes of deleting that folder later), but I
    > can't delete or move any of the folders from the computer.
    >
    > Anybody ever heard of this?
    >

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  4. #4


    Bob Guest

    Re: Permanently deleting music folders

    Open an Administrator Command Prompt
    Type attrib -r -a -s -h del [drive] path] [filename] Press Enter.
    -------
    *Report back, please*


    "Tim" <Tim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:2571C791-AE7D-4AF9-8D73-6F04D6B79509@xxxxxx

    >
    > Hi Kara
    >
    > I'm having the same problems with my old Zune music files.
    > Can't delete or anything
    >
    > Have you found an answer??
    >
    > "Kara" wrote:
    >

    >> I recieved 50G of music from my friend and saved it to my hard drive with
    >> the
    >> intent of deleting everything I didn't want. The problem I'm having is
    >> just
    >> that. When I select delete from WMP and computer, it continues to the
    >> popup
    >> that says its calculating the time required, but that is it. It just
    >> hangs
    >> out with the green time bar running left to right at a speed of "0
    >> bytes/sec."
    >>
    >> I can easily delete my entire library from media player(which I did to
    >> see
    >> if it made any difference), and create new folders (which I tried to move
    >> everything I wanted to delete, in hopes of deleting that folder later),
    >> but I
    >> can't delete or move any of the folders from the computer.
    >>
    >> Anybody ever heard of this?
    >>

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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