Cannot remove old Google Drive Dir

[Mofu]

Hi all,

So I am having trouble deleting an old Google Drive dir. This was a shared folder which is now not shared anymore and I want to delete it.

 

It's right now in the root of my E: drive, folder called "Andette".

 

I have tried Command Prompt:

"rmdir" - This results in "The directory is not empty".

"move" - I can move the folder within the E: drive, but nowhere else.

"rmdir /s /q" - The results in "Andette\2\3\5\1\3\3\t\Q1\1\2\3\3\1\Device image (also linked in - The system cannot fint the file specified. <--- Yeah, there's a lot of folder in there, none of which I can delete either normally or through Command Prompt.

 

Anyone has a clue what I can do?

 

Thanks!

[andrew.f]

3 minutes ago, Mofu said:

Hi all,

So I am having trouble deleting an old Google Drive dir. This was a shared folder which is now not shared anymore and I want to delete it.

 

It's right now in the root of my E: drive, folder called "Andette".

 

I have tried Command Prompt:

"rmdir" - This results in "The directory is not empty".

"move" - I can move the folder within the E: drive, but nowhere else.

"rmdir /s /q" - The results in "Andette\2\3\5\1\3\3\t\Q1\1\2\3\3\1\Device image (also linked in - The system cannot fint the file specified. <--- Yeah, there's a lot of folder in there, none of which I can delete either normally or through Command Prompt.

 

Anyone has a clue what I can do?

 

Thanks!

You could try using the disk clean-up tool

 

[paddy-stone]

I take it you have uninstalled google drive first?

[Mofu]

3 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

I take it you have uninstalled google drive first?

Yeah, no difference.

[Mofu]

3 hours ago, andrew.f said:

You could try using the disk clean-up tool

 

Doesn't find anything I'm afraid.

[paddy-stone]

Ok, I used to use this tool here  http://filehippo.com/download_unlocker/

 

The other thing you could try is boot into windows using safe mode and try deleting it there.. the only thing I can think of is that some process is not letting you delete it.

 

Or try this newer version from a different company http://www.iobit.com/en/iobit-unlocker.php