PVP Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 ...In fact quite a lot of them after successfully finding them. Thanks, peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted December 30, 2017 Moderators Share Posted December 30, 2017 can you screenshot the files in question for us? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PVP Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 Thank you. I have a screenshot. This is what it looks like after I did a Duplicate Finder (DF) search and deleted the files indicated. Then I reran the DF and the files are still there, as verified by File Explorer. I did try to delete at least one hundred files at the time. Thanks, peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted January 1, 2018 Moderators Share Posted January 1, 2018 have you tried deleting some of those files from File Explorer itself? you may get an error message or something that helps identify the issue. (like, "sorry can't delete - file in use", that sort of thing) are you logged on under the same user that created those files? is that \peter\church folder read-only? is your user account Standard or Administrator? Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PVP Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I have been busy. BUT i found that my files came over from another Windows and were therefore (stupidly?) made read-only. Why oh why does it do that? Clearing the read-only properties takes a long time. I'll let you know how I get on probably by week'd end. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted January 3, 2018 Moderators Share Posted January 3, 2018 3 hours ago, PVP said: Clearing the read-only properties takes a long time. you should be able to select them all, right click one of the selected files, Properties, untick Read-only. Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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