[WEB4LIB] undeletable folder called 'timesink'

[Dobbs, Aaron]

In Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) right click the folder, click
properties, uncheck the "archived", "read-only", and any other boxes, click
OK, right-click the folder  again and delete.  
This can also be done from the command line (C:\ prompt) but I have
forgotten enough about DOS (denial, most likely) to remember how to change
the attributes of a given folder.
the command probably goes something like this:  

attrib -R -A -S -H C:\<path-to-folder>\timesink /D
Type "attrib /?"   sans quotes at the command prompt if the above doesn't
work.

Aaron Dobbs
Information Services Librarian
dobbsa at apsu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: rhiebert at sd6.bc.ca [mailto:rhiebert at sd6.bc.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:13 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] undeletable folder called 'timesink'


Hello All,

A folder called 'timesink' has shown up in my (win98) workstation \program
files\ directory -- it seems undeletable! I tried using 'deltree' from the
dos
prompt and that did not work. Are there any tools (free, preferably) I can
remove this with? Thanks.

Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School
www.sd6.bc.ca/gss/library/
Fax: 250 344 7116
rhiebert at sd6.bc.ca