I have a file on my system. A substantially large one, hence why it's a problem. The file, when it was created by a program, was extrememly long. I can't open, delete, rename, move, copy, cut, or do any action involving the file now because the filename is longer than the set limit on windows. How this happened I'm not sure. The filename makes use of extended characters(Unicode/SJIS) so that may be the reason. I attempted loading into Linux and editing the file that way but Linux doesn't even detect the file. Is there anyway to remove the file or rename it? Possibly by some low-level means? Or maybe a fix in windows? Thanks

trying booting up in safe mode and try to delete it that way. safemode = f8 at bootup screen. Jim R

Hi Vix86. Try running Spyware Nuker or spy Sweeper. It sounds to me like you have some Nasy spyware on your machine. Post back and let us know how you get on. Have a nice Day. May the force be with you.

I've tried safe mode already, still the same issue. And I've ruled out spyware because I know exactly what program created the file and it is not spyware. The issue is a file with a filename longer than max size was created and as a result windows freaks out when any action is done with the file because it "can't find it" so to speak. ie: Filename of "1234567890123.txt" but the limit on filename size is 8 characters so when you go into explorer and try to open,delete,rename, etc. the file all windows sees is "12345678" and thats not the file, so it freaks. At this point my only guess as to removing it will be some program that can access the hard drive at a low level and delete the sectors.

Have you tried the MS-DOS file name of 123456~1.txt instead of the long file name. Dos has the 8.3 deal in naming files. CoffeeBreak

Can you uninstall the program that caused it and thereby removing the file? The file that caused it, does it run at startup? If so untick the file and then try doing something with it. As I understand it,(and please correct me if I am wrong), if a filename is too long, doesn't Windows truncate it (I think that is what it's called- shorten it) Regards Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia