Cant delete my divx files

[Dagger38]

I have the problem that i cant delete my selfmade divx avi files on my D drive (ntfs) in windows XP.

Message sounds like: cant delete files , are in use by other programm or user!

No other user is allowed on my computer and i cant think of a programm that uses the files.

What now?


DGA38@hotmail.com


Greetings to all rippers :o

[Akai Rounin]

WinXP Ghost User...

Try logging on as an Administrator, then attempt to delete the file. Go to the Control Panel and look for the option to Add|Remove Users or something like that. There should be a list of active users, Admin, Guest and Yourself. If you are the only user of your PC, make sure that you are assigned Administrator capabilities. Also, try CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up the system task window. Under one of the tabs it should list all the programs that are currently running and the User that opened them. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to see which User has opened a particular file... But if you see a different User name assigned to a program that opens video for playback or editing, that may be the culprit. In any case, just close any program in the task list that could be running video. Restart the computer, then try to delete the files again. I hope this helps!

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin

[Dagger38]

Thanks for replying!!!!!


I am the administrtor!!!
and i only cant delete the divx avi movies i created myself.

There is NO programm useing these files and still i cant delete them.


Go figure :( :( :( :(

[Phibes]

I have the same problem even logged as administraotr . The only way I found is creating a new account with asministrator powers and delete the files. It worked to some files but the problem started again. I think that doing this many times we can delete the files. I dont understand why it only happens with avi files.

[goldfinger]

select properties on the file, and when it pops up, try change the name, just by adding a letter or so, press ok, if the filename change, you can delete it.
works 8 out of 10 times.

or try the same within the program "eraser"

[Gary]

Try this:

Start regedit and remove the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32.


I haven't had a problem since.

[cmacleo]

I had a problem a while ago if I installed the VirtualDub aviproxy and frameserving stuff I could not delete/mive AVI files. Try uninstalling them and see if it works. If you need to frameserve after that just install them, framserve and the uninstall.

Uninstall them by running AuxSetup.exe and also running the proxy off.reg in aviproxy folder.

[Greyhair]

This is gonna sound weird, but I found two ways to solve this.

The first is to boot up in "safe" mode and delete the file from there. The second is to load the program "Winamp". Open the file dialog and delete the file from there. I've had the winamp thing work several times.

HTH

[Jess]

Try this:

Start regedit and remove the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32.


I haven't had a problem since.

At last a permanet fix for a very annoying problem. Worked like a champ.
Thanks Gary

[kforeman]

Gary, just wanted to say that you are the damn man, if I am allowed to say that. Anyway, I loaded up XP a few months back and have had to delete AVI files through DOS. Thanks for the info, worked great.

KF

[ChrisX]

I remember having the same problem with my WinXP computer at least a couple or three times before. The computer thinks the file is in use or recently in use.

The problem can be fixed by re-starting or re-booting the computer or deleting it from another computer in my home network.

Did you try doing this?

[Dagger38]

Try this:

Start regedit and remove the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32.


I haven't had a problem since.

Worked Worked Worked 8) 8) 8) 8) :P :P


Thanks to all!

[Akai Rounin]

Cool. I haven't had this problem for a long time myself. Wish I knew about the registry key thingie back then. It first popped up when I installed a new 80 GB hard drive on the system, which had WinXP installed sometime before. First, with four partitions, after a few files were saved, if I attempted to delete temporary AVI files, I'd get an error like "Recycle Bin is Corrupted". This snowballed over time so that eventually I could neither access nor delete any files on the drive. So I reformatted and tried to go to two partitions... Same problem. Then I said screw it and made it a single 80 GB partition. I haven't had the problem again since. I can only think that maybe the hard drive setup program was saying it was making the partitions NTFS, but wasn't really.

goldfinger wrote, "select properties on the file, and when it pops up, try change the name, just by adding a letter or so, press ok, if the filename change, you can delete it. works 8 out of 10 times."

Ha! I remember doing this too - but the problem kept escalating until the drive was unusable. So tell me, what does the "CLSID ... InProcServer32" registry key do that confuses WinXP so much?

HUN-YA!

Akai Rounin