How to delete a file that contains spaces in the file name?
You can do it like this:
del /F "\\?\C:\My_Dir\Registering*wrong*app*"
This will match any amount of characters between and after the words, and also works on wrong files.
If you don't have other files that start with Registering
, you might as well try:
del /F "\\?\C:\My_Dir\Registering*"
If the file is undeletable, use Process Explorer and search for the handle and kill the owning process.
Find --> Find Handle/DLL (CTRL+F) --> Type in
Registering
--> Kill the matching processes.
Open a command prompt, and change to the My_Dir directory
cd \My_Dir
Get the short (8.3) file name for the file.
dir /a /x /p
You should see something like
02/13/2011 07:25 PM 1,010 REGIST~1 Registering Wrong App
The REGIST~1 is the short file name. Try the del command with that name.
del REGIST~1
Try putting the filename in quotes, but replacing the spaces with question marks, like this:
del "registering?wrong?app"
That should delete the file if the spaces aren't really spaces, but nulls or some other invisible character.