Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — Deletion of file in Windows 11

Re: Deletion of file in Windows 11

null@example.com (Alfred) — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:00:50 +0000

stevieg wrote:

Option 2 on https://windowsreport.com/files-wont-delete-windows-11/ Worked a treat.

That’s great news, Stephen! Thanks for the update.

stevieg wrote:

Interestingly I entered force delete files on windows 11 into Google.co.uk running on Chrome and neither of Alfred's results showed up.

That is indeed interesting. My preferred search engine is DuckDuckGo; I don’t use Chrome.

Re: Deletion of file in Windows 11

null@example.com (stevieg) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:34:48 +0000

Hello All

Option 2 on https://windowsreport.com/files-wont-delete-windows-11/ Worked a treat.

Interestingly I entered force delete files on windows 11 into Google.co.uk running on Chrome and neither of Alfred's results showed up.

Stephen

Re: Deletion of file in Windows 11

null@example.com (stevieg) — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:39:26 +0000

Thank You Alfred for taking the time to do this. You have found different results to what I did.

It might be weekend before I have time to try your ideas out.

Stephen

Re: Deletion of file in Windows 11

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:07:21 +0000

There may be a permissions issue which is preventing deletion of the file. Performing an Internet search for force delete files on windows 11 returned many results, including these two:

https://windowsreport.com/files-wont-delete-windows-11/

https://thegeekpage.com/cannot-delete-a-file-or-folder/

Re: Deletion of file in Windows 11

null@example.com (Ali) — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:57:13 +0000

I have occasionally found files that simply won't delete - they must have corrupted in some way. Annoying, but very infrequent, so I just live with it. Not much help ... sorry!

Deletion of file in Windows 11

null@example.com (stevieg) — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:38:05 +0000

Hello All

Not sure if this right place to ask, but thought you experts could maybe help me.

If you see my recent post re AlbumPlus you will see I have stubborn file I can't delete

Does anybody have any ideas on how to delete a file from windows 11 that refuse to be deleted ?

many thanks

Stephen