Accidentally made a folder called '.. and now windows says it can't find it to delete it

Asked May 19 '17 at 13:01

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I accidentally changed a folder name to be '.., and now whenever I try to delete it, windows is saying it can't find the file or folder specified. I need to delete it though because it's messing up the git repo

asked May 19 '17 at 13:01

Alex Kibler

Does the folder show up in the Open dialog in Notepad? Can you right click and delete it from there? – B540Glenn May 19 '17 at 13:10
You should be able to delete it from the command prompt – LPChip May 19 '17 at 13:10
Robocopy might be able to remove it. But be careful, it's dangerous, sometimes. – Herb May 19 '17 at 13:14
@B540Glenn it does show, but I can't delete it from there. Same error – Alex Kibler May 19 '17 at 13:23
@LPChip I tried that and it still told me it couldn't find it – Alex Kibler May 19 '17 at 13:23
@Herb how does that work? I've never used robocopy before – Alex Kibler May 19 '17 at 13:24
@herb I tried robocopy '.. asdf and it gave me the same error about not being able to find it – Alex Kibler May 19 '17 at 13:25
In cmd, if you type dir /x in the parent directory, you will see its 8.3 name, and you can use this in the rmdir command. – AFH May 19 '17 at 13:27
Since David Postill marked the duplicate, I now see it is one of the answers in his link. – AFH May 19 '17 at 13:36

Accidentally made a folder called '.. and now windows says it can't find it to delete it

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