Item not found: cannot delete?

I do apologize, as I'm pretty sure this has come up before, but searching for such general terms as "delete" tends to bring up a whole world of threads, none of which appear related.

I have a ghost file sitting in my download directory, that I cannot delete. When I attempt to do so, I get an error



I have made a number of attempts to fix. I tried to rename the file, get the same error, have rebooted a few times, won't delete, tried pasting a file into the same directory, and renaming it the same as the ghost file, extension and all, to see if that would somehow "merge" the files, and allow me to delete, no luck. I even attempted to search for a reference to the file in regedit, but found nothing.

Any idea how to get rid of this pesky annoyance?

Thanks as always,

Russell

The file was apparently moved or deleted. If you know the name of the file, open C: (in Computer) and put the filename into the top right search field. Maybe you can find it.

Thanks for the reply, whs, I just tried a search for it, and all it found was the ghost file in the downloads directory, not any original.