Yes, that is what I did, I copyed the content (files and folders) of the problematic special characters folder, not the folder itself. I deleted the folder with the strange (ASCII?) charcters after I copyed its content.
Everithing is OK now and I suppose I will never have this problem again, but...
at last!
I opened "Folder Lock" and changed folder options in winXP unchecking "hide protected operating system files"
then I saw the strange folder named with the special character codes, it has been hidden, I renamed it to "new"
but when I click it, it shows control panel instead of...
I haven't used Linux but I may try the live CD
those guys from the support of Folder lock know how to deal with this but they won't say unless I buy the product, which i don't want to do.
thank you for the help anyway!
I think the problem is somehow related with the character set, may be this...
here's the screenshot
doesn't work
don't know why
how can I see the DOS names of folders and files?
the dir command gives "Folder lock" as folder name but I know from my win98 that the DOS name is folder~1, unfortunately winXP doesn't show DOS names in "properties" and command prompt also...
OK,
the problem folder i called Folder Lock , DOS name is folder~1
it is on my secon hard drive - my old hard - on G: drive which is FAT
(previously it was created under win98, now I am using win XP and my main hard drive is NTFS)
I can access this folder, I can copy it everywhere but I...
thank you, but I will have some problems with that, could you please type for the commands I should use in command prompt step by step?
Sorry for being so unexperienced! :)
Hi,
Some time ago I've used some of the older versions of Folder lock program (trial) and I had to format and reinstall Windows OS on my C: drive. The problem is that some of my files remained locked in a folder on D: drive and remain locked since then. I've contacted the suport of "Folder...
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