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File Deleter !?#!@#

4 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/file-deleter.29633/

xpabhi
xpabhi Original post #1
Jun 6, 2006 at 4:25 AM
hello ppl...

hope evryones doin well....

well i jst woke up from a nightmare... :p .. yeah kinda...read on... i nevr had such a prob b4!!!

i was downloading this torrent movie... to jst chck it properly... i copied it to my documents.... jst casually... n then i played it with vlc player...

vlc player indexed the avi file..... then it ran it....

after tht i cudnt delete the avi...

yeah thr was absolutely no way i cud delete tht file... it said tht some othr prog was usin it.... i had come across such situs b4. so i did a deboot.... nope.... reboot in safe mode...nope... chck disk..nope...uninstalled al progs related to tht file.... nope... i was goin mad :X..... i jst sat here from 3 am to 4 30 am tryin to delete tht file... :eek:

maaaaaaaan i was fed up.... finally i got this softy file deleter n deleted the file wit it.. :p

now somebody tell me how this file deleter sofy works....jst for academic purpose u kno.... :p
Vyasram
Vyasram #2
Jun 6, 2006 at 7:23 AM
if u del usin shift+del , it deletes only the referrer/header and one can recover the data. If u use file del softie like Erazer , it completely deletes the file from head to tail
anandk
anandk #3
Jun 6, 2006 at 7:58 AM
file deleters usually delete such 'locked' files on reboot, when they r still to be used/locked.
xpabhi
xpabhi #4
Jun 14, 2006 at 5:11 AM
well thanx... tht answered my ques :)