I use a free utility for Windows (most all versions) called 
DeleteInvalidFiles (or used to be).  It was written by Assistance & 
Resources for Computing, Inc

  You can get it here:

http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/index.htm

Doug


At 1/21/2007 04:30 AM, LKucera wrote:

>Dear List,
>     Recently I've been downloading a lot of divx movies from Usenet 
> and to save space on my laptop I moved the avi to my Maxtor One 
> Touch, this happened around Nov 16 and I don't know what I did but 
> the file somehow got corrupted and it will not delete. I've tried 
> rebooting into Safe Mode and but it won't let me delete it, I've 
> tried cut and paste into the recycle bin, no go. At first the file 
> was Iceage.avi then it turned into an unknown file titled <.  When 
> trying to delete it I would get filename or directory name or 
> volume label syntax is incorrect. I've tried defrag but it won't 
> let me complete it, I've tried Chekdisc and nothing happens, and 
> now I have a bunch of files that are labeled gobbly gook, strange 
> symbols, some of the folders are semi-transparent and I really want 
> to get rid of this folder since it has over 170 GB and I at a loss. 
> One more thing its using fat 32.
>
>Can anyone help me?

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