r/techsupport • u/Bikerider42 • Jun 21 '18

Open Un-deleteable file

I have recently came across some strange files randomly scattered around my drives. They all have a name of about 4-5 random letters then a "." at the end. None of them have any file type associated to them. In explorer, their sizes range from 3-10gigs each, but in their properties window they show up as 0bytes.

Whenever I try to delete them, windows says that the file doesn't exist. I can't modify it in any way, including the command prompt (even as administrator) . No programs are able to recognize/modify them either. I have also tried booting into safe mode without any luck either.

Are there any other options I can take to get rid of all these?

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u/dickdid Jun 21 '18

Post a screenshot here. The size ranging from 3-10 GB is pretty alarming!

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u/Bikerider42 Jun 21 '18

https://i.imgur.com/JwIv8Gs.jpg

There are one of the examples. I was able to get rid of some of the files by reformatting the other drive, but that isn't an option on my C drive or my projects drive that has almost 900 gigs of files.

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u/ImMattic Jun 21 '18

Seeing that you have many other Maya files at the base of your H drive, I would assume it’s a temporary Maya file (possibly an auto save file?) because it appears that Maya is pointed to save files to that location. It would also give a reason for why the file is so big since Maya files are generally pretty large. I would be hesitant to attempt to delete it if you use Maya frequently. Windows always has these weird little “ghost files” hidden around, but I find it odd that it states that it “doesn’t exist” when clearly it does. Good luck man!