Monday, August 20, 2012

How to Fix "Could Not Find This Item" When deleting items in windows 7.

Ok, so we have all come across this error at one time or another if you have used windows for longer than a week. The dreaded "Could not Find This Item" error, the quickest way to solve this is to go to StartMenu>Search>Type in "cmd" then right click on the shortcut and click "Run as Administrator" then once the UAC prompt shows up click "ok" and it will open cmd. Then once in the cmd prompt navigate to the directory, for example "C:/users/Bob/Documents/BuisnessReports" and lets say there is a folder in there named "End of Year Reports" but when "bob" goes to delete it it gives him the error, well he used cmd and does "cd C:/users/Bob/Documents/BuisnessReports" then does "Dir /a /x /p" and it lists all the folders and files in there, he should get something like "BuisnessRep~1" he then goes and types in "ren BuisnessRep~1 newfoldernameuseanything" and then BuisnessRep~1 is now named newfoldernameuseanything. So, now he can safely delete the folder and everything inside it without getting the error.

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