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Question

Unable to unhide or delete a folder windows 8

Jul 9, 2013 8:22PM PDT

Hi ,

I was moving my default user folder locations, where I have managed to move 'My Pictures' and 'My Documents' successfully. however when I was moving Documents folder I made a mistake of selecting the whole 'e:\' drive as the target location instead of 'e:\download'. As I don't want the E: to be the target location I have reverted it back.

Now for some reasons I am not able to delete Downloads folder that I created manually in E: drive. That folder is hidden, it doesn't show even when I select the option to show hidden files and folders. However the files in that Download folder are showing up when I search them.

To open the 'Documents' properties I selected one of the file from the search list, right clicked and selected open file location. so finally when I saw the properties of the folder it says hidden, and it is not allowing me to uncheck it. I tried changing permissions of the folder but still no luck. I even used command prompt to delete that folder, but it says access denied.

All I now need is I want to delete the folder 'Download' in my E: drive. I am the admin of my windows 8 pc. Thank for your help in advance.

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Just in case.
Jul 10, 2013 12:37AM PDT

Did you try this the old fashioned way? Such as a boot to safe mode and use the old ATTRIB command to unhide?

I know folk are trying to avoid the command line but I find it useful to know this area if you run Windows.
Bob

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ATTRIB works!
Jul 10, 2013 4:59AM PDT

Hi Bob,

You are a true star mate. ATTRIB works...

Was actually lazy to go into safe mode, tried to run command prompt as an adminstrator and applied the ATTRIB command. I could see the folder and deleted it.

Thanks you so much.

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It's old fashioned but
Jul 10, 2013 5:16AM PDT

But when folk post here I usually find they've had enough GUI.
Bob