I am trying to delete a folder in Windows 10 Pro but I get an error message stating " Item Not found..Could not find this item...This is no longer found in ..... Verify the item's location and try again." This happened before when my PC was working under Windows 7 Utimate.
[SOLVED] Not able to delete folder.
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Sysnative Windows Update
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- Oct 9, 2014
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This means that the folder has already been deleted.
Sysnative Windows Update
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It's not. If the folder was still present, you would not be getting the message.
britechguy
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See: Folder keeps reappearing even after it is deleted
I found other similar instructions with a web search on "folder keeps on reappearing after deleted" as well. @softwaremaniac is absolutely correct that the message you're getting means that the folder is actually no longer physically present. It's a mystery why the issue you're having occurs, and it does occur, but seemingly very rarely.
I found other similar instructions with a web search on "folder keeps on reappearing after deleted" as well. @softwaremaniac is absolutely correct that the message you're getting means that the folder is actually no longer physically present. It's a mystery why the issue you're having occurs, and it does occur, but seemingly very rarely.
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It would help if we knew the path to the folder.
Do you use Microsoft Edge? If so, change Edge's default download path.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026331/microsoft-edge-change-the-downloads-folder-location
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026331/microsoft-edge-change-the-downloads-folder-location
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I've seen this before and it cleared with a simple reboot.
I go to the security tab and I get "The requested security information is either unavailable or can't be displayed". I think that maybe the issue stems from when I was using smb in order to share the parent folder via Kodi on my firestick. This particular folder contains a ._.DS_Store file. I was deleting them but I think it may have done something to the folder structure.
- May 7, 2013
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Have you rebooted the computer? You likely can't see the file metadata since the file does not actually exist on the disk anymore.
britechguy
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And, if Fast Startup has not been disabled (it's on by default), you will need to reboot using Restart to get Windows 10 to load from scratch from the disk drive.
I disable Fast Startup as part of my routine setup tasks for Windows 10, as I have seen all sorts of bizarre errors occur when the special hibernation file used by Fast Startup gets corrupted, and it is not removed unless Fast Startup is disabled and the machine shutdown and powered up again, or Restart is used as the method for rebooting.
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Very true, I forgot that fast startup doesn't actually "shut down" the system, but rather places it into a hibernation state.
FTR, I never disable Fast Startup and have not experienced problems. When it first appeared in W8, it did cause problems for a few people, especially those who regularly used file encryption. But W8 came out many years ago. So did W10 now. And MS has not be sitting on their thumbs. It is enabled by default because it works great for the vast majority of users.
britechguy
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I am not going to get into an endless argument, but my professional experience under Windows 8 and Windows 10 suggests it absolutely does not "work great" for the vast majority of users.
If you have an SSD, as many do, it's virtually worthless in terms of speeding up boot times in any meaningful way. If you have a HDD, it can, but almost invariably there will come a time for those who never use Restart where the special hibernation file becomes corrupted and then you start seeing all sorts of issues that are, to put it mildly, unusual, and that, if you are not aware that this file is used and corruption can trigger these issues, are almost impossible to fix by "the usual means."
The increase in boot speed that can be had is not, in my opinion, worth the trade off. I've been called in to fix far too many systems where nothing was really wrong except that the machine had not literally been restarted, with Windows 10 loading from disk, because those who owned them did not realize that Shutdown did not literally shut down the machine, but put it into a special form of hibernation. The use of long term hibernation followed by hibernation followed by hibernation was strongly discouraged during the Windows 7 era because of the potential for the same thing to occur that long term use of Fast Startup without any actual Restart cycle can and often does cause.
But, in the end, it is up to the end user to decide. But if they do elect to use Fast Startup they must know that it's a good idea, on occasion, to do a Restart and not to just perpetually keep doing Shutdown.
And then you added two paragraphs to argue your point!
You can follow the link in my sig to see if I might have some "professional experience" too. All I can say is if it didn't work great for the vast majority of users (since it is enabled by default), then I am sure many of my clients would be yelling at me, and my shop (not to mention this site and the other tech support forums I frequent daily) would be inundated with computers having the problems you suggest they definitely would have. But my clients are not yelling at me, I don't see those computers flooding my shop, or lots of posters complaining here at Sysnative, or at other sites either.
I am not saying it never happens - just that it is not the problem you pose it is. And it is surprising how many of those actual problems can be cleared simply by rebooting.
As for hibernation in W7, not sure your point about it being discouraged. By default, for a PC (laptops are different) Windows 7 uses the "hybrid" sleep mode. And since the vast majority of users stick with the defaults, again that was not the problem you suggest it is.
Ummm, sorry, but this makes no sense. Did you mean to say "and not to just perpetually keep letting it go to sleep?"
A restart (or a shutdown) will reset the hibernate file (or Registry entry pointing to it) because either will automatically close all your open applications. So when it comes back up, you are at your desktop, not where you left off - as happens with hibernate (including hybrid sleep).
Plus, I think it important to point out Windows Update and many security program updates frequently require Windows be rebooted. So again, Fast Boot would be reset.
I never manually shutdown unless I will be doing maintenance or leaving town or something like that. I just let all my computers go to sleep.
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