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[Ski]

It's an e-mail file, one of many I get from a friend who uses AOL mail client. It comes with no association tag. In order to open the file, I copy it to my 'work' partition and rename it to (Whatever).eml then I can open it, but in the copy process it creates a same named zero length file that can't be moved, renamed, deleted, etc. When any attempts are made to manipulate the file the following error shows up -
'Cannot Read From The Source File or Disc'
In the past, I've copied my good stuff to a temp partition and quick formatted the work partition - all is well again.
Is there another way to do this? Can't remember much about zero length files, cept they can mess up a drive.

TIA

Scratch that - I figured it out - simple 'erase' command in DOS. Don't quite remember it being that simple....... :)

[Broni]

Try Unlocker...

Download, and install Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Restart computer.
It'll install under right click menu.

Open Windows Explorer.
Navigate to offending folder/file.

Right click on a folder/file. Click Unlocker
Select Delete from drop-down menu:



Click OK.
A folder/file will refuse to be deleted, but Unlocker will give you an option to delete on reboot:



Click Yes.
Restart computer.

[Ski]

Thanx. I'll try it. Also a** it to my fix'it USB stick