I am having a folder into my desktop and am not able to delete that particular one folder. While clicking on delete, am getting an error message which says, “could not find this item”. I have tried to scan my computer using updated Anti Virus, did disk clean up but cannot delete folder. Finally, I have got the idea and would love to share this information with you guys.
Hello friends, this is Abhishek here and welcome back to my website learnabhi.com. In this post am going to share with you how to delete a folder that cannot be deleted with the help of command prompt.
Not able to delete a folder in Windows 10 | Solution
Go to Search
Type cmd, it will show you a command prompt option.
Right click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator
Type cd /d location of your folder (e.g. my folder is located in desktop so am going to type: cd /d c:/Users\user name\desktop ) and hit Enter
Type dir /x (It will show you list of folders in the particular drive. e.g. I have select desktop, so it will show me the list of folder available on my desktop)
Now, type rmdir /q /s folder name code (rmdir stands for remove directory. from the list folder you have find by running dir /x command, select your folder code. Your folder code will be just before your folder name). In my scenario, am going to enter rmdir /q /s UNKNOW~3 and hit Enter
Bingo, its all done. You have successfully deleted you folder.
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