How to delete folder named "..." on Windows

Question

How can a folder named ... be deleted on Windows 10?

Note that the folder name is three dots.

C:\Users\Mike the Coder God\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio>dir
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is B0D9-0617
Directory of C:\Users\Mike the Coder God\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio
02/09/2022  09:31 PM    <DIR>          .
02/09/2022  09:31 PM    <DIR>          ..
08/23/2020  11:45 AM    <DIR>          ...
02/21/2018  10:50 AM    <DIR>          19.0
11/08/2018  04:50 PM    <DIR>          20.0
02/09/2022  09:31 PM    <DIR>          code_templates
02/09/2022  05:35 PM    <DIR>          projects
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               7 Dir(s)  620,393,701,376 bytes free
C:\Users\Mike the Coder God\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio>

I've tried running CMD as an administrator and entering this command:

rmdir "\\?\C:\Users\Mike the Coder God\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\..."

It responds with: The directory is not empty.

Entering these commands does nothing. (The folder/prompt stay the same.)

cd ...
cd "..."

Entering this command gets The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

rmdir .\...

https://superuser.com/questions/528502/cant-remove-three-dots-folder-on-my-hdd — MiG, Feb 10 '22 at 16:45
Does this answer your question? Can't remove three dots folder on my hdd — DarkDiamond, Feb 10 '22 at 17:17

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '22 at 16:45

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If it is not empty, use rmdir /s /q to delete its contents recursively.

rd/s/q \\?\C:\etc\etc\...

Suffixing the path with \ would also bypass the stripping of trailing .'s.

rd/s/q ...\

answered Feb 10 '22 at 16:45

u1686_grawity

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How to delete folder named "..." on Windows

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