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It turns out that the files go away after a reboot...

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I'm running Windows 8 and I wanted to move my personal files to a different drive, After the new folder is selected and the files moved to the new location, the old folder remains. And you can't do anything with it!

 

Open.

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Delete.

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I can't even Hide it.

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Now I am and Administrator, the only thing I can think of is logging in as the "Computer's Administrator", but how? I cant see anything like "Login as different user".

 

I also made a mistake and selected the wrong folder for Music and had to re-move it, the folder on my new drive that was wrong now is doing the same thing.

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"Mentally Unstable Like a Fox!"

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This might help, works with Windows Vista and 7 should work with 8, http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

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Nope that had no effect, I have also already tried to do that within windows itself. Thanks anyway.

"Mentally Unstable Like a Fox!"

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If you are able to create a linux boot flash drive. You can boot into that and delete the folder from within there as linux does not have the same permissions to get caught by.

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It turns out that the files go away after a reboot...

"Mentally Unstable Like a Fox!"

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